Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 2 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 3 | Most reviews have identified administrative deficiencies — one scrutiny found it cost 90 to administer 100 of woodland grant — and some have led to major changes ( such as the establishment of a non-Defence central purchasing unit : see Government Purchasing : A Review of Government Contract and Procurement Procedures , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |
| 5 | On the contrary , middle class feminists asked for the repeal of all protective legislation because they believed it to represent one of the barriers to female employment . |
| 6 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 7 | He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does . |
| 8 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 9 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 10 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 11 | He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds . |
| 12 | The wind was in the right direction , and she heard it strike ten — and then eleven . |
| 13 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 14 | I saw it contained fifteen or twenty pages , and thought , my God , this is like the interview I did with Adenauer twenty years ago all over again ! |
| 15 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
| 16 | One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Aa made it nobbut two days sen . |
| 18 | Her confessor having ordered her to use an ordinary discipline and leave off her iron chain , she made it knot three rows and wore it round her body … |
| 19 | When did it start eighty three |
| 20 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 21 | shape and Did it have two chimneys ? |
| 22 | How long did it take one man . |
| 23 | But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ? |
| 24 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 25 | He then altered it to read forty thousand and five pounds and transferred it into his own bank account . |
| 26 | and there were two women that had it done , that big one had , had it done four times |
| 27 | Well the other one that had it done four times said oh , I 'm on my own now with the little boy , so she was |
| 28 | We had it built two years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ Had it come five minutes earlier , ’ he said when he heard the news , ‘ I might have been saved . |
| 30 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |