Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 2 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 3 | This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first ! |
| 4 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 5 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |
| 6 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 7 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |
| 8 | In it stand two heroes playing the lyre ( one no doubt Orpheus ; a third figure is lost ) , and at either end , outside the ship , a horseman , the Dioscuri again : and all these figures are absolutely frontal like statues . |
| 9 | Beyond it stood four guards , their knives drawn . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 11 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |
| 12 | At one time , estate agents were entering sufficient lots for it to hold 100 sales a year in the City or in the New Connaught Rooms . |
| 13 | Think about it driving thirty hours . |
| 14 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |