Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 2 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 3 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 4 | It drove him in 1950 to establish a committee to help people in need . |
| 5 | Yeah , it knocked me for six |
| 6 | It took me to twenty to stand into a half crouch and reach up for the bolt . |
| 7 | It took her from 25 February to 30 June to save a shilling , but once she had accomplished that she was content that she could manage and ‘ never let it trouble me again ’ . |
| 8 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 9 | It cleared him by 10 votes to three of a charge that he had received bribes from Koskotas , and by nine votes to four of a charge that he had embezzled state funds by asking the Ministry of Finance to write off illegally debts owed by an Athens hotelier , Socrates Kalkanis . |
| 10 | It reminded me of one of those Nazi places , honestly . |
| 11 | it reminded me of one of those plastic haircuts you used to get as a kid for the legoland men . |
| 12 | Above left The wallpaper frieze in the sitting room came from America and was fearfully expensive , but Angela could n't resist it because it reminded her of two pictures in her bedroom , of fruit and flowers painted on black velvet . |
| 13 | It left him on seven under , six behind Lanner and in with a chance of a first victory since March last year . |
| 14 | It left him with two alternatives . |