Example sentences of "[verb] it [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 2 | ‘ They say it three times ? ’ |
| 3 | Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later ! |
| 4 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 5 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 6 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 7 | Call up the design and place it two rows up from the bottom of the design area , leaving two empty rows of squares along the bottom of the screen . |
| 8 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 9 | It 's too highly fragranced — you can smell it 24 hours later — but very effective . |
| 10 | Well I 've done it six days . |
| 11 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 12 | done it four years and this year we 're Worcester . |
| 13 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
| 14 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |
| 15 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 16 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 17 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 18 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 19 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 20 | bash it five minutes down the road , bang bang |
| 21 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 22 | Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave . |
| 23 | I 'd give it three stars , or ( as Michelin says ) vaut le detour . |
| 24 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 25 | I 'll give it ten minutes more , he thought , then I 'll push off home . |
| 26 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 27 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 28 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 29 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 30 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |