Example sentences of "it [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | She progressed eventually to the title role , playing it 500 times . |
| 2 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 3 | One could wish it eight times as long , a great compendium like Burton 's Anatomy of Melancholy . |
| 4 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 5 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 6 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 7 | Although he had done it countless times before there was always a risk involved , especially since the introduction of guard dogs trained to sniff out illegal stowaways like himself . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a fantastic achievement to win here just once but to do it six times is amazing and a very special feat . ’ |
| 10 | Now this is n not quite accurate , because it does n't quite go into it six times . |
| 11 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 12 | This makes it 100 times worse than the Windscale accident and 1000 times worse than the Three Mile Island accident . |
| 13 | Jinny read it three times . |
| 14 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 15 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 16 | Take three breaths and then repeat the Energizing Breathing so that you do it three times altogether . |
| 17 | What is equally undeniable is Die Auferstehung 's status as a masterwork ( Mozart conducted it three times in 1788 , expressing no small amount of enthusiasm ) , and this recording 's fine presentation of the piece , worthy to stand beside Hermann Max 's [ see my review of JS Bach 's Magnificat below — Ed. ] splendid Capriccio recording ( coupled with . |
| 18 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 19 | I said it three times , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 21 | She said she ‘ hollered ’ at it three times not to pull her in the water . |
| 22 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 23 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 24 | He fires at it three times to try and open it , but without success . |
| 25 | I 've heard it three times now . |
| 26 | I was surprised when Newsround came and we had to sing Ding dong merrily on high again after singing it three times before . |
| 27 | Do you shout it three times pointing towards Canterbury ? |
| 28 | it three times a day instead of once . |
| 29 | The new Emperor called for lights , examined the face , then thrust at it three times with a sword . |
| 30 | Surely he knows you 're well warned already , but for his honour he can not keep from underscoring it three times . ’ |