Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 2 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 3 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 4 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 5 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 6 | I I 've got to say that it 's somebody that 's got a personal project that has done it in one force ai n't it . |
| 7 | They would have had to have done it within three weeks anyway and I think the way they are looking at it if they do that tomorrow then they 're counting from then till the next stage . |
| 8 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've missed it by ten minutes . |
| 10 | You 've saved it in two months ? |
| 11 | He 's said it about three times , on last year 's Channel 4 series Paul Merton The Series , and he grafted it , unnaturally , onto his screen persona very much as an anti-catchphrase , as a joke joke . |
| 12 | I have n't seen it for sixty year . ’ |
| 13 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 14 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 15 | I have n't drawn it for two years now , but … 'She glanced swiftly at her bag , her watch . |
| 16 | We 've enjoyed this one , we 've had it for two weeks . |
| 17 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 18 | Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more . |
| 19 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 20 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 21 | Well I 've had it on three days John . |
| 22 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 23 | where I used to put two , two bags on a day , and have it up at number five and six we 've got it on one bag a day and it 's on nu less than number one . |
| 24 | Nigel Scott , deputy general manager of the UCI cinema in Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ We 've got it on two screens and we 're having to turn people away . |
| 25 | ‘ Got it for sixty pounds less , thanks to you . ’ |
| 26 | One no I 've got it in five whoops . |
| 27 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 28 | She had not played it since two months before Catherine was born . |
| 29 | The passcode system 's a welcome addition and the joystick on the control panel which mimics your movement 's also a nice touch , but once you 've played it for five minutes you 'll have seen everything the game 's got to offer ! |
| 30 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |