Example sentences of "[prep] it [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 2 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 3 | But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds . |
| 4 | The style expressed their mood and artistic ideas and they clung to it well into the thirteenth century . |
| 5 | It was also given in-depth coverage on television and radio that evening , with News at Ten running it as the lead story in the first half of the programme and coming back to it again in the second . |
| 6 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 7 | Everything about it up to the last page where Strauss wrote IN MEMORIAM ! and we hear the ‘ Eroica ’ theme for the last time . |