Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 2 | This remodelling might also be contemporary with the decision to provide earthwork defences , though it could have preceded it by several years on current dating evidence ; either way , such changes mark a significant watershed in the town 's development and pose important questions about its status and function . |
| 3 | A text description of the item(s) covered by the record should allow the information to be both recorded and retrieved without having to split it between several records . |
| 4 | She washed and rinsed it , dried it with several towels , then with a final towel about her shoulders , spread it out to dry , separating and kneading the long snaky strands . |
| 5 | Seven editors rejected it despite several reviewers indicating that it was well written . |
| 6 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 7 | In spring 1978 , Marcella Evaristi had persuaded the Traverse that she and I ought to put a ‘ poetry reading ’ together , and run it for several nights . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 9 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 10 | Yes , sweetheart , I feel it in several ways ; by contrast , for example , with my idyllic dreaming of two or three years ago ; there is a change . |
| 11 | I watched it for several minutes , and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and the rest were going up and down . |
| 12 | If the odds were not grossly unfavourable , it should be possible to hold it for several hours . |
| 13 | It is an open economy in the technical sense that the ratios of both imports and exports to Gross Domestic product ( GDP ) have historically been high compared to other advanced industrial countries and in the broader sense that UK firms ' investments overseas are high , foreign firms ' ownership of UK enterprises is high , and the financial sector , the City , which is a major sector of the economy and dominates it in several ways , is essentially international in outlook . |
| 14 | Transfer the pudding to the refrigerator , where you may safely leave it for several days . |
| 15 | To be on the safe side , they sent it to several countries . |
| 16 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 17 | Its first owners were a noble Florentine family — the Pucci family — who through the generations , owned it , lost it and repossessed it on several occasions . |
| 18 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 19 | The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy . |
| 20 | The entry for ‘ home ’ , for example , defines it in several ways , including a sense few male lexicographers would ever consider : most women 's place of work . |
| 21 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 22 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 23 | If an illness has multiple causes it makes sense to attack it on several fronts at once . |
| 24 | She scrubbed the old lino floor until it revealed a pleasant geometric pattern of tan , brown and yellow diamonds ; poured bleach , then caustic soda , and then her own physical energy into the stained hideous bath , succeeding in restoring it in several places to snowy whiteness . |