Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall need it for the forty foots . |
| 2 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 3 | Thus you can describe it by the three numbers ( x1 , x2 , x3 ) |
| 4 | To illustrate this I punched a row on a punchcard of six punched holes and six blanks , alternating it on the one row . |
| 5 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 6 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 7 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |
| 8 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 9 | Now you could do it in the nineteen seventies and er well yes I would say from nineteen sixty eight onwards with plastic card and revolv , what 's called revolving credit . |
| 10 | in the seventies but like er you can do it in the seventies you ca n't do it in the nineties . |
| 11 | in the seventies but like er you can do it in the seventies you ca n't do it in the nineties . |
| 12 | My head says Leeds will do it inside the 90 minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 14 | Nick Champion of Russell , Baldwin and Bright Markets , who run it on the four Tuesdays prior to Christmas and sell several tons a year , says dealers are having to travel far afield to collect mistletoe to sell at Tenbury . |
| 15 | Swapo remains the overwhelming favourite to win the United Nations-supervised elections next month , but claims that the organisation has detained and tortured many of its members in Angola and Zambia may deprive it of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government in an independent Namibia without holding another election . |
| 16 | He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies . |
| 17 | The problem is an old one : Ford faced it in the 1920s when it shipped its mass-production methods across to old-fashioned , craft-based Europe . |
| 18 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 19 | To complete the single market and extend it to the seven countries of EFTA . |
| 20 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 21 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 22 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 23 | My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’ |
| 24 | In the second set of instructions , take the one pair and perm it with the two highest scoring selections in each of the three trios and in the third section , perm a straight 8 from 9 among your second column trio matches . |
| 25 | For instance , Wordsworth 's famous poem ‘ My heart leaps up ’ is in 6/8 metre , and one could quite easily fit it to the 6/8 tune of ‘ Jack and Jill ’ : Of course , the result is horrific . |
| 26 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 27 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |
| 28 | Schools allocated to teach the FSE project taught it during the three months immediately after administration of the questionnaire . |
| 29 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 30 | You pass it to the two blokes . |