Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’
2 Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London .
3 The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites .
4 Her confessor having ordered her to use an ordinary discipline and leave off her iron chain , she made it knot three rows and wore it round her body …
5 I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ?
6 We had it built two years ago .
7 He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds .
8 Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year .
9 Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ .
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