Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [coord] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves five or six visits to a clinic or hospital for key investigations which include blood tests , semen analysis , an ultrasound examination and a minor operation to check that the woman 's tubes are clear . |
| 2 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 3 | If it costs thirty or forty pounds why do you only fifteen pounds on income support for them ? |
| 4 | So I should think that 's but I reckon we must cos the government changed it , it knocked hundred and forty quid off did n't they ? |
| 5 | A mechanic for Britax France refused to believe that British installation charges did not include the cost of the seat as well , ‘ It takes 10 or 15 minutes at the most , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It takes one or two divers with umbilicals that are paid out by tenders on the surface . |
| 7 | in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days . |
| 8 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
| 9 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |
| 10 | I saw it contained fifteen or twenty pages , and thought , my God , this is like the interview I did with Adenauer twenty years ago all over again ! |
| 11 | It took four or five days for that news to reach Strasbourg . |
| 12 | It took fifteen or twenty years for the prosperous white planters to see the dangers of a community in which the vast majority of the population were slaves from Africa and there was no room for any white man below their own level of prosperity . |
| 13 | And er I er penetrated , it took two or three days in the womb with this spoon , and the heard something go pop . |
| 14 | He made Joynson-Hicks ( good on penal reform but illiberal on all else ) Home Secretary , and thus firmly launched the Home Office , which had been different in the days of Harcourt , Asquith and Churchill , upon a course of dour obscurantism from which it took three or four decades to recover . |
| 15 | This gentleman bocht the donkey fae MacGreigor — it was afore my day though — an it wes two or three days in the field at the front door . |
| 16 | Erm the back of the skull er and it did n't last I think it lasted two or three weeks but that was all . |
| 17 | The basket also provides a limited safe haven since it carries one or two cylinders of compressed air . |
| 18 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |