Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
2 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
3 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
4 | I got it with the fourth one |
5 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
6 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
7 | No I put it in the last two times . |
8 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
9 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
10 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
11 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
12 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
13 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
14 | All we we 've agreed that we 're going to need someone to control it at the next fair . |
15 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
16 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
17 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
18 | ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him . |
19 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
20 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
21 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
22 | ‘ Well , like , ten minutes ago , because I need it for the next programme . ’ |
23 | ‘ I closed it after the first year . |
24 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
25 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
26 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
27 | North Tyneside is a ‘ programme authority ’ for the purposes of urban programming , which puts it in the second highest division of local authorities for central assistance , which is inner-city related . |
28 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
29 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
30 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |