Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 2 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 3 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 4 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 5 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 6 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 7 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 8 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 9 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 10 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |