Example sentences of "[vb past] it the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 2 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 3 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 4 | I hated it the first time . |
| 5 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 6 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 7 | We made the necessary arrangements with the owner and viewed it the next day . |
| 8 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 9 | We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can . |
| 10 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 11 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 12 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 13 | The conservative Popular Party ( PP ) increased its share of the vote to 25.2 per cent , and gains by the communist-led United Left ( IU ) made it the third most important political force , holding the balance of power in a number of regional and city governments . |
| 14 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 15 | When she did it the second time . |
| 16 | We liked it the first time , it was a bit like |
| 17 | had it the last time . |
| 18 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 19 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 20 | And do you believe it , they wanted it the next day . |
| 21 | The German magazine Die Stern had also bought rights to the letter , and published it the next day , with a lengthy translation and a headline proclaiming , ‘ Drink , Birds and Politics — Prince Confesses . ’ |
| 22 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 23 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 24 | I missed it the last time round . ’ |