Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 2 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 3 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 4 | UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces . |
| 5 | The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country . |
| 6 | It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date . |
| 7 | Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives . |
| 8 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
| 9 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |
| 10 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |