Example sentences of "it [vb past] ten [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 2 | It cost ten pounds . ’ |
| 3 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 4 | It showed ten minutes past four . |
| 5 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |
| 6 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 7 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 8 | It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage , with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary . |
| 9 | ‘ It took ten minutes to film and I was actually on TV for about six seconds . |
| 10 | Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation . |
| 11 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 12 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |
| 13 | IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground . |
| 14 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 15 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 16 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 17 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 18 | It had ten buttons , to be pressed in a certain order . |
| 19 | The medieval bridge , built in 1392 and demolished c. 1856 , was a little distance south-west of the modern road bridge and is recorded as having been preceded by an earlier bridge on the same line ; it had ten waterways set between stone piers and a timber superstructure , a method of construction commonly used by Roman engineers . |