Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
2 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
3 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
4 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
5 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |