Example sentences of "it [verb] ten [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 2 | Open to children aged nine to 14 , it covers ten events , including the 100 metres , 1,500 metres , long jump , triple jump , high jump , shot , discus and javelin . |
| 3 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 4 | It has ten times the luminosity of the Sun , and is pure white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 5 | It has ten parts : |
| 6 | It has ten acres of land and a pretty garden of roses and rhododendrons . |
| 7 | Chirk Aqueduct , built in 1796–1801 to carry the Ellesmere Canal across the River Ceirog , is still one of the fine pieces of engineering work carried out by Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) – It has ten arches each of forty foot span , and the masonry structure supports a cast-iron trough carrying the canal . |
| 8 | It cost ten pounds . ’ |
| 9 | Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It showed ten minutes past four . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 13 | No it takes ten times as much . |
| 14 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 15 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |
| 16 | It deserves ten stars , not three . |
| 17 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage , with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary . |
| 20 | ‘ It took ten minutes to film and I was actually on TV for about six seconds . |
| 21 | Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |
| 24 | IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 27 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 28 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 29 | It puts ten years on her do n't it . |
| 30 | It had ten buttons , to be pressed in a certain order . |