Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
6 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
7 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
8 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
11 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
12 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
13 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
14 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
15 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
18 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
19 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |
20 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
21 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
22 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
23 | And it cost two pound thirty five for a hundred and thirty six gram egg and two forty gram Creme Eggs . |
24 | And it cost sixty pence in this country to buy , buy a small bar of chocolate . |
25 | When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine . |
26 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
27 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
28 | But it had 22 frets , big frets , and really loud humbuckers and that was why I liked it . |
29 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
30 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |