Example sentences of "[verb] it [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
2 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
3 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
4 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
5 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
6 | bash it five minutes down the road , bang bang |
7 | Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave . |
8 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
9 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
10 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
11 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
12 | I 've had it thirty years in my garden . |
13 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |
14 | Give it six months at least . |
15 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
16 | In the coils adjacent to his wrists he located the python 's cloaca and managed to give it one hell of a goosing . |
17 | Begin with the corner motif , positioning it 7 cm from the edge . |
18 | A small ensemble of four viole da braccio plus continuo suggests the trot , canter , and gallop of Tancred 's horse , the fall of night , the clash of swords , the fury of the combatants ( by rapidly repeated chords , an instrumental effect which disconcerted the players although Biagio Marini had employed it seven years before ) , 2l and their infighting with sword-pommels , helmets , and shields ( by another novel effect : pizzicato chords ) . |
19 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
20 | Approach it one step at a time — just as you are reducing your weight and inches . |
21 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
22 | FARNELL Electronics has confounded the doubters and increased earnings per share yet again in the recessionary 12 months to February 2 , giving it 26 years of uninterrupted growth . |
23 | You know , just let's take it one step at a time please . |
24 | Then into the playroom for a chat with the birds , numerous visits to the corridor to talk to the fish and feed it two grains of fish food at a time . |
25 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
26 | It arrived at the sixth , where he drove into the lake , picked out his ball under penalty , then hit it 260 yards with his 1-iron straight into the hole . |
27 | Tony , on the Leicester right , started it five yards from his own line with a brilliant burst which took him over the half-way line . |
28 | We did n't tell anyone , and I took things very quietly , doing exactly what was advised and taking it one day at a time . |
29 | ‘ We are deliberately taking it one step at a time … |
30 | ‘ We are taking it one step at a time and working with the police . ’ |