Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe I 'll see the funny side of it one day .
2 As I 've said before , falconry has always fascinated me , and I hope I 'm going to be able to make my living at it one day .
3 Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’
4 It was significant because during the course of it two things became very plain to Anna .
5 What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 .
6 get in the top of it one day
7 I think he might write a book about it one day . ’
8 Some of them have actually turned round and said keep it up Mr , keep it up Mr , we will see the end of it one day .
9 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
10 And he may be marching into a trap with a right hand that needed surgery on it three fights ago to enable him to continue in boxing .
11 Dickon told his mother about it one evening as he was digging the cottage garden .
12 ‘ One of the Hell Fire Club members , Richard Whaley , accidentally set fire to it one night .
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