Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
2 | If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ? |
3 | spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go |
4 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
5 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
6 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
7 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
8 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
9 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
10 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
11 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |