Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 2 | Moreover , under 1020 the death of Archbishop Lyfing is given first , although it occurred on 12 June , after Cnut 's return to England and the Easter meeting at Cirencester . |
| 3 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 4 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 5 | If it worked on thirteen amps , that was all the proof needed . |
| 6 | It was big but it was n't tall because it walked on four feet . |
| 7 | The outlines of his life are familiar but , because it fell into three parts separated by place as well as time , it is obscure in detail even to those who were closest to him at any given time . |
| 8 | MORE than 18,000 passengers have flown on the new Belfast City to London Gatwick service since it took off two months ago , Jersey European revealed today . |
| 9 | Since it joined in 1980 Japan has listed only four sites for protection and one of these , Lake Utonai on the northern island of Hokkaido , is now said to be threatened by secret plans to build a 40-kilometre flood control canal . |
| 10 | But they were cut from the programme after it overran by 10 minutes . |
| 11 | Atari recently sent a shiver through the industry when it laid off 1700 employees . |
| 12 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 13 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 14 | When it opened on 1 September 1864 an extra junction was provided from the main line at Dalry to what became known as Coltbridge junction . |
| 15 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 16 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 17 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 18 | The society now moved from the rather passive position of regretting ( as it did on 5 August 1789 ) that ‘ there was no appropriate educational establishment in England for the desired improvement of farriery ( in this context comprehending the medical treatment of horses , cattle and sheep ) by a regular education in that science on medical and anatomical principles ’ , to a positive position of recommending such an institution as had been established in France , Germany and elsewhere on the Continent , as being necessary in this country . |
| 19 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 20 | Guests paid £25 per head for the two-hour function , but as it overran by three minutes , they gladly paid out an additional £25 . |
| 21 | Seconds later , the 400-ton cargo plane exploded in a fireball as it smashed into two blocks of flats — killing all four aboard and several hundred on the ground . |
| 22 | On the other hand , however much it might be in demand , Indian patronage was never plentiful , for it fluctuated from one year to the next in accordance with Indian needs rather than the wishes of the Scottish politician . |