Example sentences of "[vb past] it [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 2 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 3 | and if you used it one day a week . |
| 4 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 5 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 6 | And I tried it one night , it was very yummy and very filling . |
| 7 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 8 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 9 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 10 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 11 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 12 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 13 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 14 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 15 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 16 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 17 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 18 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 19 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 20 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Sebastian opened it two inches . |
| 23 | I opened it one morning , there was somebody looking at me . |
| 24 | Hardly able to hold the putter , he then knocked it three feet past ! ’ |
| 25 | He then knocked it three feet past ! |
| 26 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 27 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 28 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 29 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
| 30 | So they took the house apart , stone by stone , and rebuilt it twenty yards further south on a piece of land recommended by the god . |