Example sentences of "[vb base] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We expect it to contribute 4.5 per cent of profits , and we base that on our expected group performance of 20 per cent organic growth a year . ’ |
2 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
3 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
4 | They say it contains eight per cent alcohol , and the locals down it by the gallon . |
5 | We want it done two twelfths of the time . |
6 | The society claims , however , that recent votes show it has 3-1 support in the House of Lords and more in the Commons . |
7 | Weaver had a Council flat , but let it go three months back . |
8 | " Fill your Sillabub pot half full with sider , and good store of sugar , and a little nutmeg , stir it well together , and put in as much cream by two or three spoonfuls at a time , as hard as you can , as though you milk it in ; then stir it together very softly once about , and let it stand two hours before you eat it , for the standing makes it curd . " |
9 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |
10 | Look it says one ninety one , yes . |
11 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
12 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
13 | ‘ I only know it has four wheels and it goes , ’ she said , laughing . |
14 | So each time you want to do something it 's five , displays it and so on tell it to read five but it just fills up it 's memory , it 's little buffer with that much . |
15 | I believe it to constitute one of the clearest lines of demarcation between upper and lower in the working class . ’ |
16 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
17 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
18 | ‘ They reckon it killed sixteen thousand people . ’ |
19 | My file called stat it says zero airlines . |
20 | Erm the back of the skull er and it did n't last I think it lasted two or three weeks but that was all . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | I think it said three and a half minutes . |
23 | I think it said twenty one days . |
24 | All I remembered is , they got , it 's chocolate and it 's got brandy in it , cos she was gon na put , I think it says three teaspoons |
25 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
26 | I think it cost thirty shillings . |
27 | Sink It took two people 90 minutes to wash up , dry , clean sink and draining board and put the dishes away . |
28 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |