Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 2 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 3 | Software engineering outfit Dazix is now Intergraph Electronics after the company that bought it two years ago . |
| 4 | And Nan would be twenty next month and due for a rise , and she was hoping her father would stretch a point and make it ten shillings , for no matter what he said , Nan was a good assistant . |
| 5 | They later formed Theme Holdings with Peter Langan , opened three restaurants , floated the company on the stock market in 1987 ( value £6m ) and sold it two years later for £18m . |
| 6 | ‘ But they bought it for £46 million and sold it six months later for £92 million , and there was nothing we could do about it . ’ |
| 7 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 8 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 9 | Call up the design and place it two rows up from the bottom of the design area , leaving two empty rows of squares along the bottom of the screen . |
| 10 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 11 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 12 | " We would not allow a farmer to stick something in a cow and chase it three times around five fields before it died " , Gummer said . |
| 13 | So they took the house apart , stone by stone , and rebuilt it twenty yards further south on a piece of land recommended by the god . |
| 14 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 17 | Some people carry on and live it 24 hours a day because they have to be that person all the time and at that time , it was n't like you played a gig , finished the gig and then had a very private life until the next gig . |
| 18 | To illustrate , consider an investor who purchases a 91-day bill 10 days after issue at a rate of discount of 10 per cent and sells it 7 days later at the same rate of discount . |
| 19 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a fantastic achievement to win here just once but to do it six times is amazing and a very special feat . ’ |
| 22 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
| 23 | But to end it three issues must be raised , which have been implicit rather than explicit within the argument so far : the relevance of the lack of clarity within much policy ; the significance of value conflict ; and the importance of rewards . |
| 24 | Johnson knew the word , but supposed it 50 years dead . |