Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does . |
| 4 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation . |
| 10 | The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted . |
| 11 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 12 | It detected a pick-up in house sales and said it hoped 1993 would prove ‘ a springboard for recovery ’ . |
| 13 | Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ . |
| 14 | The group , one of Europe 's leaders in the field , said it lost 650 billion lire ( £284 million ) last year , compared with 460 billion lire ( £201 million ) in 1991 , because of heavy competition and the international economic slowdown . |
| 15 | Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London . |