Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ranged it beside a dozen other pots and jars and bottles on her dressing-table and it looked well . |
| 2 | In both cases the RapidCad exhibited full IEEE compliance even though the Cyrix test program reported it as a 486 ! . |
| 3 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 4 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 5 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 6 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 7 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 8 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 9 | He then holed it for a three . |
| 10 | The problem is an old one : Ford faced it in the 1920s when it shipped its mass-production methods across to old-fashioned , craft-based Europe . |
| 11 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 12 | He had gone 3 , 2 at the 11th and 12th , then followed it with a three at the 14th , where he hit an eight-iron to a yard . |
| 13 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 14 | Schools allocated to teach the FSE project taught it during the three months immediately after administration of the questionnaire . |
| 15 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 16 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 17 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 18 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 19 | Thomas Baskerville , who saw it in the 1680s , called it ‘ Paradise Restored , for here you find large streets , fair built houses , fine women , and many coaches rattling about , and their shops full of merchantable goods ’ . |
| 20 | Susy 's affectionate and gentle nature eased it on the one side , James 's common sense and recognition of Susy 's value to his life made it easier on his . |
| 21 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 22 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
| 23 | It was so easy to flatter her , she took it like a sixteen year old wino 's never heard it before . |
| 24 | He placed the beings , pictured as animals , in a belt embracing the known universe , and divided it into the twelve equal houses of the zodiac ( Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Sagittarius , Scorpio , Capricorn , Aquarius and Pisces ) . |
| 25 | It was a great day , and best of all we even made it on the nine , on the six o'clock news . |
| 26 | The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley . |
| 27 | And it was hundred and ten if you did it over the two six |
| 28 | I did it in a hundred and twenty three , the actual stage one equivalent in the month if |
| 29 | Originally stolen by a wizard from a DRAGON 's cave , the Emperor Charlemagne gave it to the four sons of Aymon . |
| 30 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |