Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 2 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 3 | That was that 's raising it you know raise it to the one third , you find the cube root . |
| 4 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 5 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 6 | My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’ |
| 7 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |
| 8 | So I went to tax it with the fifty five quid as I thought ! |
| 9 | So you try it with the sixes see if they work try it with the sevens try it with the eights see what works . |
| 10 | Make and have represent it on the one hand merely as the producing of an effect ( controlling the production of an effect in the case of have ) . |