Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’ |
| 2 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 3 | So it stayed 70 years on the floor . |
| 4 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 5 | Well it said three wrong . |
| 6 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 7 | I 'll make the point again Martin that just as on Saturday when goals were flying in at both ends and eventually it finished three two , I kept saying do n't believe the scoring is all over in this game , that 's my feeling now . |
| 8 | ‘ I spotted the old Humber while I was on duty and at first thought it would take me a couple of years to restore — but eventually it took seven ! |
| 9 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 10 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 11 | And then it went five hundred plus . |
| 12 | I think it said five six seven eight nine ten or summat on one side and then it said six seven eight nine on other side . |
| 13 | Then it put two Croatian towns , ancient Dubrovnik , on the Adriatic , and Vukovar , a pretty Danube town , under siege ; to punish or reverse Croatia 's secession , said the army . |
| 14 | Then it showed two of the coaches of the second train sprawled across the track . |
| 15 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 16 | In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth . |
| 17 | Instead it took five . |
| 18 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 19 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 20 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 21 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |