Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's too highly fragranced — you can smell it 24 hours later — but very effective . |
2 | Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave . |
3 | I 'd give it three stars , or ( as Michelin says ) vaut le detour . |
4 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
5 | I 'll give it ten minutes more , he thought , then I 'll push off home . |
6 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |
7 | She made me repeat it five times . |
8 | They are with you now , but they do n't remember it two minutes later or know who you are even . |
9 | One could wish it eight times as long , a great compendium like Burton 's Anatomy of Melancholy . |
10 | You can take it two ways , it 'll probably get up and bite you . |
11 | Do you take it four times a day or |
12 | So I 'd rather have it four times |
13 | Wherever he is he 'll have it two minutes later . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | This is going to be a lot more erm , let's call it two pages and five pages . |
16 | You can hear it five miles away . |
17 | You can approach it two ways . |
18 | well I 'll leave it three weeks and then I 'll give them a ring . |
19 | Think it 's used to you in that I do n't know what , I do n't tell Ron , well he knows how I felt cos I said course I 'm , god he said , is that a performance , he said I have n't sat on your knee for ages , I said no I just feel like it , before we went out and er , I said well I do n't think there 's anything the matter do you , I said with him back there saying make sure Mr Hudson has the notes , and he said no , he said , he said he would n't leave it seven months he said |
20 | Instead of three years , we 'll make it eighteen months . |
21 | He could well land the opening three races with Royal Wonder , Pertemps Network and Huntworth , while Star 's Delight can make it two wins in as many days by taking the Rainford Conditional Jockeys Handicap Chase . |
22 | Twenty let's make it twenty miles an hour . |
23 | Do you shout it three times pointing towards Canterbury ? |