Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You may need it one day . ’
2 You see I think he 'd win it three year .
3 It 's too highly fragranced — you can smell it 24 hours later — but very effective .
4 Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave .
5 I 'd give it three stars , or ( as Michelin says ) vaut le detour .
6 I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again
7 I 'll give it ten minutes more , he thought , then I 'll push off home .
8 But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that .
9 But what if you did n't do it one year ? ’
10 One boy 'd do it one week and another boy 'd do it another week you know .
11 That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was .
12 She made me repeat it five times .
13 Insects which may contribute to its survival will see it one way , man sees it in another , a seed-seeking bird will perceive it in another .
14 They are with you now , but they do n't remember it two minutes later or know who you are even .
15 Now it had happened to her daughter and she did n't like it , she did n't like it one bit .
16 Swales , influential chairman of the International Selection Committee , says of the manager 's job : ‘ It destroyed Don Revie ; it did n't do Ron Greenwood too much good and Bobby Robson did n't like it one bit .
17 The point is , they 'll report it one way or the other .
18 well , oh you 're supposed to have four cups I 'll er I 'll use it one day and not tell you and see if you can tell the difference shall I ?
19 I put it , put it aside cos I will use it one day .
20 One could wish it eight times as long , a great compendium like Burton 's Anatomy of Melancholy .
21 You can take it two ways , it 'll probably get up and bite you .
22 You know , just let's take it one step at a time please .
23 I think we can take it one step further on er with a growth margin basis .
24 Do you take it four times a day or
25 So I 'd rather have it four times
26 It looks terrible it does , I 'd have it one way or the other
27 Then I should have it one time or another .
28 Wherever he is he 'll have it two minutes later . ’
29 You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish .
30 This is going to be a lot more erm , let's call it two pages and five pages .
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