Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , he 's optimistic we 'll have sorted it by two thirty . |
| 2 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 3 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 4 | You wo n't know it in 2000 |
| 5 | If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ? |
| 6 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 7 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 8 | One of the most important things to learn regarding conflict is to accept it as one of the normal challenges of life . |
| 9 | Leaning forward as far as she dared , with the great torso of the suit at a right angle to its legs , she made the claws unhook her wrist computer and plug it into one of the empty sockets on the panel . |
| 10 | Okay , so I 'm going to do ten take away , now I 'll put some brackets where that six was I do n't want to write a six , I 'm going to write it as five add one . |
| 11 | He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich . |
| 12 | Explosions of some sort were almost unavoidable if the principle of nationality was to be extended beyond the states which embodied it in 1880 . |
| 13 | Then , with great creative inspiration and insight , they painstakingly transformed it into one of Lincolnshire 's most original and interesting restaurants . |
| 14 | You could buy it for fifty ! |
| 15 | I would n't buy it for four hundred . |
| 16 | I think they can buy it at twenty eight . |
| 17 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 18 | Sir John Betjeman , on the other hand , described it as one of the industrial towns which are ‘ the hope and life of England ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ A never-never land of material values expressed in terms of gorgeous living , a plethora of high-powered cars and revolvers ’ , as A. E. Morgan described it in 1939 , ‘ of unbridled desire , of love crudely sentimental or fleshly , of vast possessions , of ruthless acquisition , of reckless violence ’ . |
| 20 | In spite of its brilliant career , the society 's delay in giving it an award of merit and a first-class certificate indicates unusual prudence , for ‘ the Château Yquem of apples ’ , as E. A. Bunyard described it in 1929 , did not receive these confirmations of its quality until 1962 . |
| 21 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 22 | It was first discovered by Gallard in 1884 , but credit has been given to Dieulafoy who described it in 1889 . |
| 23 | On 13 October , the Leader of the Opposition described it in three different ways — which is typical of him . |
| 24 | When the botanical writer John Worlidge described it in 1676 , he called the fruit ananas , a Brazilian dialect word , but went on to call it a ‘ fruit like a pineapple but much bigger ’ . |
| 25 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 26 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 27 | The dull coloured brickwork merged into the undergrowth of trees , weeds and plants untamed and was hardly noticed by most passes by who probably dismissed it as one of Lincolnshire 's useless ruins , which would either fall down or have to be pulled down eventually . |
| 28 | The Government talk about the enlargement of the Community and apparently have included it as one of their objectives for the British presidency next year . |
| 29 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 30 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |