Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.

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1 It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls .
2 At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house .
3 Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb .
4 As a result it enters 1993 with the twin objectives of expanding its home sales and divesting some of its landholdings .
5 The other greenhouse gases are : Methane It contributes 18 per cent of the current greenhouse effect .
6 In practice it overlooks two things .
7 In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition .
8 In other words it sleeps six erm and the landlady 's willing to have one person sleeping on the floor officially .
9 in Hungary it produced one of the performances , completing five laps in pre-qualifying , the best of which was 23.5secs slower than Thierry Boutsen 's pole winning time .
10 In effect it travels 230 miles ( 370 kms ) also the entire northern flank of the Swiss High Alps , crossing 16 passes and passing below some spectacular peaks including those celebrated giants of the Bernese Oberland — the Wellerhorn , Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau .
11 To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University .
12 Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it .
13 In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration .
14 In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ .
15 Last May it sold three of its four Ford dealerships to a management team for £6.7m and changed its name from Godfrey Davis ( Holdings ) .
16 In January it opened 15 centres which will up-date teachers ' skills in maths , science and computer education .
17 Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 .
18 Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s .
19 In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector .
20 ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown .
21 And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission .
22 Where the two baselines show no significant difference it means one or more of the following have happened :
23 ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard .
24 After four days it acquitted three of the defendants on all charges , and acquitted Powell — who had delivered most of the blows — on all but one minor count upon which the jury remained undecided .
25 In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m .
26 By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both .
27 Swindon Town are back on the league treadmill at Grimsby tomorrow when the two teams met at the County Ground in November it finished 1-1 .
28 Beneath Sumatra the subduction zone does not exceed a depth of 200 km , but north of Java it reaches 400 km and north of Flores , at the extreme eastern end of the zone of steady-state subduction , it attains a depth of 700 km .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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