Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 2 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 3 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |
| 4 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 5 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |
| 6 | In it stand two heroes playing the lyre ( one no doubt Orpheus ; a third figure is lost ) , and at either end , outside the ship , a horseman , the Dioscuri again : and all these figures are absolutely frontal like statues . |
| 7 | Beyond it stood four guards , their knives drawn . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 9 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |
| 10 | Think about it driving thirty hours . |
| 11 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |