Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , at the time of writing it has seven out of the 15 titles on The Bookseller 's bestsellers list . |
| 2 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 3 | He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can see me and him having it to go one of these days . ’ |
| 5 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 6 | The Open Software Foundation has been quoted in the US press as saying it shipped 85,000 binary versions of OSF/1 to developers and users last year . |
| 7 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 8 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 9 | The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 10 | It intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 11 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 12 | Thus in retail distribution and catering it reaches 80 per cent , in domestic services 90 per cent . |
| 13 | For this reason , the Presentation attainment target stops at level 7 ( the level that should be achieved by the average 16 year old ) because there is no way of extending it to level 10 , other than by specifying lists of increasingly irregular and unusual words — which would be absurd . |
| 14 | The company is claiming it offers five to six times the performance of a 66MHz 486DX , and is fully PC-compatible , meaning you can run your shareware utilities on it . |
| 15 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 16 | With the Hughes — Ryan Act of 1974 , Congress endeavoured to impose some discipline on the CIA by requiring the agency to obtain presidential approval before embarking on covert operations and obliging it to notify eight different Congressional committees either before , or soon after , such operations commenced . |