Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ? |
2 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
3 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
4 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
5 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
6 | She set it down on the kitchen table , stroked it with one finger . |
7 | Yeah , you say it after one go and you go up to the next go do n't you ? |
8 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
9 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
10 | It would be nice to find it before 2 July . |
11 | ‘ I often have rounds where I keep knocking it to 15 feet and then miss the putts . |
12 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
13 | ‘ I used to worry about Darth Vader , ’ Prentice confessed , putting his arm round Rory 's waist and lifting his foot to massage it with one hand . |
14 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
15 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
16 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
17 | Here are some examples : What if you … used triangular paper ? tried it in three dimensions ? plotted a graph ? tried a simple case first ? shared your results with someone else ? tried fractions or decimals or negative numbers ? |
18 | HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart . |
19 | Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud . |
20 | She found it within five minutes . |
21 | Then split the cards face down into three different piles and take a card from the middle pile and place it on one side of the outside piles . |
22 | But last night he had refused even to consider what she had told him , tossing it to one side as though it did n't matter . |
23 | And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds . |
24 | At fifty pounds , twenty , twenty pounds twenty pounds twenty pounds , no one want it for twenty pounds is bid , thank you , on my right , any advance on twenty ? |
25 | No one want it for twenty pounds is bid , thank you , twenty two pounds twenty five twenty five , any more at twenty five ? twenty five ? |
26 | Lot a hundred and eleven eighty eight note player piano , there it is , thank you twenty for it , twenty pounds twenty twenty twenty pounds twenty pounds , no one want it at twenty pounds twenty pounds is bid , thank you , twenty two twenty two now , any more ? |
27 | Anne wants it at 30 degrees , Pat at 60 degrees . |
28 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
29 | We have to tackle it in two directions , and I think that education is going to be incredibly important in terms of trying to create a more appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , you know , because at the end of the day that 's where people spend an enormous amount of their time . |
30 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |