Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 8 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 14 | And in the boot it had one of these things . |
| 15 | Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mean orocaecal transit time of the test meal containing lactulose , assessed by hydrogen breath analysis was similar in the two patients groups : in patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy it averaged 170 ( 19 ) minutes and in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy 138 ( 19 ) minutes . |
| 22 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 23 | In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ . |
| 24 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 25 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 26 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 27 | It has erm at the last European Election it had five hundred and twenty two thousand voters , so picking the candidate is really the first stage on s trying to get amongst five hundred and twenty two thousand voters . |
| 28 | After reduction and lemmatisation it comprised 2,344 lemmata . |
| 29 | At least five shots had now been fired from Foster 's Police Positive , and being a revolver it held six rounds . |
| 30 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |