Example sentences of "it [verb] the [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years .
2 According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) .
3 Next in the score comes the Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa ; this is in Q1692 , but there , curiously , it lacks the last four lines of its text :
4 The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 .
5 On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course .
6 Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels .
7 First , it omits the first two years of the Thatcher government 's record , when output fell 3.5 per cent .
8 However it claims the first three months of 1993 have proved profitable and reported that debt amounted to less than $3.3m .
9 It spans the first 15 years of the disease , from its appearance in the early 1950s to the Japanese government 's official statement that mercury pollution was to blame .
10 Just left of Engineers Slabs ( indeed it shares the first 15 metres ) i s Snicker Snack ( E2 5c , 5b ) .
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