Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 2 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 3 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 4 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 5 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 6 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 7 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |