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 .
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