Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 2 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 3 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 4 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 5 | Yeah , well it 's , they 've done nowt but look at it for last three month . |
| 6 | Was he running for it at last ? |
| 7 | First , and rather obviously , subjects unfamiliar with a rather complex dynamic decision problem under risk have difficulty in coping with it on first acquaintance . |
| 8 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 9 | I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah |
| 10 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 11 | Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied . |