Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One thinks of Groucho Marx 's quip : ‘ Giving up smoking is easy — I 've done it hundreds of times . ’ |
2 | ‘ I have done it thousands of times before and will do it thousands of times again . ’ |
3 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
4 | ‘ We must have seen it dozens of times , ’ he said . |
5 | ‘ Oh , hell … ’ she groaned , and tried to sit up , her head feeling as if someone had stuffed it full of cotton wool , ‘ I fainted , did n't I ? |
6 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |