Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punk rock was over by then anyway ( real punks claimed it finished in 1976 , but who were the ‘ real ’ punks ? ) and in its place there was an orgy of cross-cultural pollination , based entirely upon received ideas . |
| 2 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 3 | ( ‘ I heard it said of one of Hitler 's speeches : ‘ Oh , she 's in a right state ’ , ’ the author recalls . ) |
| 4 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 5 | Speights , the country 's foremost brewery , started it rolling with five guineas . |
| 6 | The village when they reached it consisted of three dozen palm-thatched huts raised on poles ten feet above the ground . |
| 7 | , I thought it came on seven disks not six . |
| 8 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
| 9 | So nobody could I kept that shop , I paid the rent on the shop for twelve months , I kept it closed for twelve months , to get that place going . |
| 10 | They does microwaves and all over there You got It varies from one week to the next what they got . |
| 11 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 12 | But with the growth of these other uses , what exactly did it mean by 1990 to say that ‘ TV ’ was a mass medium ? |
| 13 | He was curled in a rickety chair and had it balanced on two of its legs , one foot braced against the column . |
| 14 | A company working in the Distributed Computing Environment arena got hold of version 1.0.1 last week and had it installed in seven hours , which we take to be an improvement over the initial 1.0 version described by it as ‘ a nightmare ’ that ‘ could n't be used ’ because it was so buggy . |
| 15 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 16 | The Pentagon said it knew of 59 dead and 66 wounded , and of 1,500 prisoners from the 6,000-strong Panamanian Defence Force . |
| 17 | If you wanted it done in three hours ? |
| 18 | Erm how many men would we need if we wanted it built in four hours . |