Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yakovlev devotes loving attention to the single , insignificant sovkhoz ( state farm ) in the whole area , although it only employed eleven people . |
| 2 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 3 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 4 | I used to find myself walking the landing bladed up and it only needed one word out of place and I 'd turn them into a Tetley Tea Bag and I 'd never get out . |
| 5 | The waterway was called the New River , and it originally ran forty miles to Clerkenwell . |
| 6 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 7 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |
| 8 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |
| 9 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |