Example sentences of "[prep] it be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 2 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 3 | But , I mean like it 's twenty pound , yeah ? |
| 4 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |
| 5 | ‘ It will be the end of an era with it being four generations of the family , ’ said Mr Cooper , ‘ but we are ready to enjoy our retirement now . ’ |
| 6 | You see , with it being twenty foot , so so I 've never seen it fully extended . |
| 7 | Er , you like the milkman the milkman I mean absolutely stupid I thought because he kept putting milk up it was thirty P when we went there first |
| 8 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 9 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 10 | ‘ Mother 's part in it is one thing . |
| 11 | In it 's 11 year history , this is the first to crash in peacetime . |
| 12 | No , us , well , right to get in it 's two pound , two pound fifty . |
| 13 | It 's an aircraft which has been rarely out of the headlines in it 's 25 years with the RAF . |
| 14 | Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD . |
| 15 | By fence climbing and tarmac crossing it is 400 metres to the terminal building ; by the allowed route round it is five miles . |
| 16 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
| 17 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 18 | That tension is still with us , but overlaid on it are two others . |
| 19 | It was , it was without this hundred on it was fifty ohms . |
| 20 | On it was one shoe with the buckle missing and a half filled chamber-pot . |
| 21 | Beautifully displayed on it were two twists of marinated salmon , sprigs of red and green lettuce and watercress , slices of passion fruit , two slices of filet of hare , a sprig of broccoli , two crumbed and fried mushrooms in a pale-gold sauce which I guessed to be pan juices , reduced and bodied out with cream . |
| 22 | On it were four names written neatly underneath each other . |
| 23 | There is an entrance hall of perfect proportions , which is twice as long as it is square , and leading off it are three reception rooms of great height and elegance . |
| 24 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 25 | At it 's two pence . |
| 26 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 27 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |