Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [num] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud . |
| 2 | Over a year ago she had written another book , The Professor , and sent it to one publisher after another . |
| 3 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 4 | Connon read it with one sweep of the eyes . |
| 5 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 6 | I shifted it from one hand to the other in an attempt to ease the pain in my back and shoulders . |