Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has it six , seven and eight . |
| 2 | The newest discovery , 3C 324 , comes top with a red-shift of 1.206 , which places it 10 000 million light years from earth . |
| 3 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 4 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
| 5 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 6 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 7 | So this is , there 's going to be an X cubed term in here somewhere , and there might be X squared and Xs and anything else , but if it cuts it three places , it 's got three r three roots . |
| 8 | Make sure he takes it three times a day . |
| 9 | It takes it twenty four hours to turn round . |
| 10 | Dr C. N. Manlove writes ‘ the Voice ’ off as ‘ providential ’ , and clearly thinks it one more example of the ‘ biased fortune ’ which in his opinion makes it impossible to take the story seriously . |
| 11 | American herbs such as this one have a history associated with the original Indian inhabitants of the North American continent including Canada , and it was Oswego Indians in particular who used the leaves as the beverage which gives it one of its common names . |
| 12 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |
| 13 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 14 | So if he sells it thirty , just , he wo n't even cover his overheads on that but it means instead of having it delivered you go down to Joe 's shop get it for thirty P save yourself five P . |
| 15 | To illustrate , consider an investor who purchases a 91-day bill 10 days after issue at a rate of discount of 10 per cent and sells it 7 days later at the same rate of discount . |
| 16 | I 've got a client who races stock cars , but as he only does it three or four times a year , they do n't actually charge him any extra at all . |
| 17 | That since January I now I have to put two stamps on a week , which makes it eight ninety a week , right ? |
| 18 | This makes it one of the most spectacular parts of Britain to visit . |
| 19 | The wide availability of Cervelat in supermarkets and delicatessens makes it one of the most popular of charcuterie products and one that will not offend even the most conservative of palates . |
| 20 | An odd aspect of the mountain is that although its relative isolation from other hills makes it one of the most prominent peaks to pick out from other far distant tops , the views are rather more limited than one might expect . |
| 21 | Which makes it one of Britain 's least expensive automatic cards . |
| 22 | Coda Inc currently has seven offices in the US , and saw sales increase 49% to $10.6m , which , Turner reckons , makes it one of the few UK companies to have succeeded in such a notoriously dangerous market . |
| 23 | The reasonable price makes it one of this summer 's best buys . |
| 24 | Firstly , we have ‘ a state of affairs that is so acute as to constitute a danger ’ — and , we would add , a moral challenge of a scale which makes it one of the most pressing social issues of the day . |
| 25 | The sunken city on its north shore makes it one of the few places in the world where it is possible to go hard aground on a Byzantine mosaic . |
| 26 | Though it lacks the tension of Chaucer 's Parliament of Fowls , it is possessed of a wry , self-mocking quality which makes it one of the most attractive works of the age . |
| 27 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 28 | Set up with the expertise of committed , professional staff , the Democrat 's weekly sales of over 9,000 makes it one of the fastest growing weekly papers in the British Isles . |
| 29 | Edinburgh 's remarkable collection of libraries , including the copyright National Library of Scotland , makes it one of the best-provided cities in Britain for the study of history , while its archival resources and architectural heritage leave it unrivalled for the pursuit of Scottish history . |
| 30 | This makes it one of the most efficient recycling schemes of its kind . |