Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 12 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 15 | Where the two baselines show no significant difference it means one or more of the following have happened : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At one point it boasted 13 members who were admirals — not many clubs in the world can stage an annual match called Admirals v The Rest . |
| 19 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 20 | And in the boot it had one of these things . |
| 21 | Right , start that le no now we have we 're gon na play with this runway it goes three , two |
| 22 | Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field . |
| 23 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 24 | In the early twentieth-century it had two churches , one shop , no omnibus or train service , no gas or water supply and no electricity ( the Rectory had a private generator ) . |
| 25 | And he said Eventually with ropes and various other tackle it took seven of them to lift the piano back up again out of the gap that it had produced in the stairs and get it up the stairs . |
| 26 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
| 27 | This is a sentiment I strongly agree with , but as an argument it has three problems . |
| 28 | In the following month it distributed two million leaflets on the Munich crisis , following this up in December with ten million leaflets on the Spanish Civil War . |
| 29 | Erm , if you turn over the page it says seventy eight percent of female claims have been on the diagnosis of cancer , and it gives you a breakdown of the condition and the age when diagnosed . |
| 30 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |