Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty let's make it twenty miles an hour .
2 You may need it one day . ’
3 ‘ You ought to try it one day . ’
4 You know if you 're out on strike you 're out on strike and must make it hundred percent , that 's how it is .
5 Then I should have it one time or another .
6 We 'll make it one second .
7 Instead of three years , we 'll make it eighteen months .
8 So what we 'll do is we 'll have It 's also actually equals X squared plus erm we 'll make it three X minus No I 'll not be I 'll not be nasty .
9 I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again
10 I 'll give it ten minutes more , he thought , then I 'll push off home .
11 well , oh you 're supposed to have four cups I 'll er I 'll use it one day and not tell you and see if you can tell the difference shall I ?
12 The point is , they 'll report it one way or the other .
13 Wherever he is he 'll have it two minutes later . ’
14 well I 'll leave it three weeks and then I 'll give them a ring .
15 ‘ You 'll regret it one day . ’
16 You see I think he 'd win it three year .
17 One boy 'd do it one week and another boy 'd do it another week you know .
18 I 'd give it three stars , or ( as Michelin says ) vaut le detour .
19 That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was .
20 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 .
21 It looks terrible it does , I 'd have it one way or the other
22 One could wish it eight times as long , a great compendium like Burton 's Anatomy of Melancholy .
23 You know , just let's take it one step at a time please .
24 This is going to be a lot more erm , let's call it two pages and five pages .
25 Let's call it ten quid .
26 You 'd better hope and pray that you will make it one day back to your own world .
27 That will be another hour and one minute , which will make it one minute past six .
28 Insects which may contribute to its survival will see it one way , man sees it in another , a seed-seeking bird will perceive it in another .
29 I put it , put it aside cos I will use it one day .
30 He could well land the opening three races with Royal Wonder , Pertemps Network and Huntworth , while Star 's Delight can make it two wins in as many days by taking the Rainford Conditional Jockeys Handicap Chase .
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