Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 2 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 3 | ‘ Aa made it nobbut two days sen . |
| 4 | Does it sprout five different endings does it ? |
| 5 | For not only does it contain one of the largest conurbations outside London , but it also includes some thinly populated territory as well as smaller towns and rural districts . |
| 6 | How long should it take 18 men to build a similar wall ? |
| 7 | How long would it take six men ? |
| 8 | How long would it take four men to do it ? |
| 9 | So long would it take twelve men . |
| 10 | there 's twenty twenty men , right five hours to big hole , how long would it take one man . |
| 11 | How long did it take one man . |
| 12 | Which aircraft have we got and can it take two crew and a full load of fuel ? |
| 13 | Does it take two to tell it ? |
| 14 | But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ? |
| 15 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 16 | shape and Did it have two chimneys ? |
| 17 | So can it go twelve hundred and fifty kilometres in half an hour ? |
| 18 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 19 | Weaver had a Council flat , but let it go three months back . |
| 20 | " Fill your Sillabub pot half full with sider , and good store of sugar , and a little nutmeg , stir it well together , and put in as much cream by two or three spoonfuls at a time , as hard as you can , as though you milk it in ; then stir it together very softly once about , and let it stand two hours before you eat it , for the standing makes it curd . " |
| 21 | And I think if we could make it get one of the Uttlesford chaps to the same meeting |
| 22 | When did it start eighty three |
| 23 | The wind was in the right direction , and she heard it strike ten — and then eleven . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Not only does it close four more pits but it threatens five power stations in the area . |
| 26 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
| 27 | is that a four to eight , O drive as well , does it say four to eight games ? |
| 28 | You 've only got ta pick out Does it say three regular ones ? |
| 29 | Why does it say three disks . |
| 30 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |