Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 2 | If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ? |
| 3 | Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite and it affects 50 per cent of us by the time we 're 70 . |
| 4 | The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital : |
| 5 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 6 | spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go |
| 7 | Cos I I got a watch and it says five past twelve , but it 's more than that ! |
| 8 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
| 9 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 10 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 11 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 12 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 13 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
| 14 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 15 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 16 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 17 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
| 18 | New components are added every year and it remains one of the most comprehensive and effective courses available . |
| 19 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 20 | The 68060 operates at 3.3V , features an integrated floating-point unit and it has two 8Kb caches on the chip . |
| 21 | Right yo , you can have one player and it costs forty four pound ninety nine . |
| 22 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 23 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 24 | Up until 1917 , the Stroganov Palace belonged to the Stroganov family and it contained one of Russia 's largest private art collections . |