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 ?
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