Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 3 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 10 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 11 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 12 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 13 | Sebastian opened it two inches . |
| 14 | Hardly able to hold the putter , he then knocked it three feet past ! ’ |
| 15 | He then knocked it three feet past ! |
| 16 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 17 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 18 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
| 19 | So they took the house apart , stone by stone , and rebuilt it twenty yards further south on a piece of land recommended by the god . |
| 20 | We arranged it two days or three days and each was cancelled |
| 21 | Simeon 's revolt , like the one which preceded it sixty-six years before , was ruthlessly suppressed , but not before the Holy Land had once again been ravaged . |
| 22 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 23 | She has run a Beavers Club for boys aged six and seven since she founded it 27 years ago . |
| 24 | She rang it twice , she rang it four times , but there was no response . |
| 25 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 26 | Foo says it was twice as big as anything else that day , which would make it sixty to seventy feet from base to crest ; some called it eighty feet . |
| 27 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 28 | In fact he hit it 150 yards , the ball pitched , began to spin back and rolled towards the hole , finishing 10 feet away . |
| 29 | It arrived at the sixth , where he drove into the lake , picked out his ball under penalty , then hit it 260 yards with his 1-iron straight into the hole . |
| 30 | Tony , on the Leicester right , started it five yards from his own line with a brilliant burst which took him over the half-way line . |