Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] i [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway . |
| 2 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 3 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 4 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 5 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 6 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
| 7 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 9 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 10 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |