Example sentences of "and it be [verb] [adv] [num] " in BNC.

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1 And it was to take only one Scottish burning to achieve what some 275 burnings did in England : not only fear , but a Protestant backlash , ‘ a new fervency amongst the whole people ; yea , even in the town of St Andrews began the people plainly to damn such unjust cruelty ’ .
2 The owners of the palace were the Hartig family and it was built about 1700 by Alliprandi .
3 Another criticism was that the homes were prone to fire , and it was revealed how one householder had accidentally set his property alight with a blow-torch .
4 This was to Eleanor of Aquitaine and it was celebrated just eight weeks alter her first marriage , to King Louis VII of France , had been annulled .
5 and it were gone about seven or eight weeks and when he heard nowt about it
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