Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 2 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 3 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 4 | I did show it to one of the department and he read it through … |
| 5 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 6 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 7 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 8 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 9 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 11 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 12 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 13 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 14 | It was supposed to take three to five days , but we aimed to do it in two . |
| 15 | we had to split it into two . |
| 16 | We wanted to split it into three , |
| 17 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 18 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 19 | Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece . |
| 20 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 21 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 22 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 23 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 24 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 25 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |