Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
| 2 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 3 | Alison also likes 60s music ( too young to remember it the first time around ) and buying things for her home . |
| 4 | Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope . |
| 5 | His hand hovered over the book as though to give it a second chance . |
| 6 | Ace Barton , world champion and on present form looking likely to make it a second time . |
| 7 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 8 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 9 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |