Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I canna see it in this light ya fule , ’ the top-hat swayed angrily as its owner knocked the hand away . |
| 2 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 3 | Only one group use it to any marked degree in navigation . |
| 4 | Only one person managed it on public transport . |
| 5 | As one observer put it after goalless draws with Castellon and Mallorca : ‘ Under Beenhakker , the little teams were slaughtered . ’ |
| 6 | One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain . |
| 7 | The working of a material can convert kinetic energy into potential energy as an aesthetic process ; just as the energy expended in lifting a one kilogramme weight to a height of one metre invests it with one kgm of potential energy . |