Example sentences of "it [verb] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sleeps ten with a permanent staff of three . |
| 2 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 3 | Open to children aged nine to 14 , it covers ten events , including the 100 metres , 1,500 metres , long jump , triple jump , high jump , shot , discus and javelin . |
| 4 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 5 | Chirk Aqueduct , built in 1796–1801 to carry the Ellesmere Canal across the River Ceirog , is still one of the fine pieces of engineering work carried out by Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) – It has ten arches each of forty foot span , and the masonry structure supports a cast-iron trough carrying the canal . |
| 6 | It has ten pre-punched cards supplied with it , instead of the 20 that come with the SK280 and SK740 and it does n't have a carrying case . |
| 7 | It has ten acres of land and a pretty garden of roses and rhododendrons . |
| 8 | It has ten times the luminosity of the Sun , and is pure white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 9 | It has ten parts : |
| 10 | Here 's a lovely winter scene but it contains ten deliberate mistakes . |
| 11 | It cost ten pounds . ’ |
| 12 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 13 | Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . |
| 14 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 15 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 16 | In ‘ God 's Cop ’ , Mark Day 's guitar is raw and rasping like it eats ten jangly guitars for breakfast ; rhythm and booze at its best , but gelling easily with the older , classic Bez-dance tunes ‘ Hallelujah ’ and ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ , both still mesmeric , especially with tonight 's flashy light show , and ‘ Step On ’ still makes a stomping lingering finale . |
| 17 | It showed ten minutes past four . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 19 | No it takes ten times as much . |
| 20 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 21 | in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days . |
| 22 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |
| 23 | It deserves ten stars , not three . |
| 24 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 25 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 26 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 27 | It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage , with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary . |
| 28 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |
| 29 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 30 | IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground . |