Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 2 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 3 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 4 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 5 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 6 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 7 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 8 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 9 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 10 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 11 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 12 | Sometimes there might be the temptation to leave it until the next day if the weather is bad or your car will not start . |
| 13 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
| 14 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 15 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
| 16 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 17 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 18 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
| 19 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 20 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis . |
| 22 | In fact , a musical dedicated to Elvis is on tour , giving two fans the chance to see it for the FORTIETH time . |
| 23 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
| 24 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
| 25 | I went to the , I went to the gold shop when they were shut actually , w to get it in the first place |
| 26 | So even if the associate has , has er , obtained the cheque but has n't managed to get it in the next day , and he dies in an accident . |
| 27 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 28 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 29 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 30 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |