Example sentences of "a [noun] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.

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1 As a result it enters 1993 with the twin objectives of expanding its home sales and divesting some of its landholdings .
2 ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown .
3 In a sense it reflects one of the themes of my novels : the mingling of the present and past and the ways the boundaries of time can seem strangely impermanent .
4 Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads .
5 each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done .
6 At least five shots had now been fired from Foster 's Police Positive , and being a revolver it held six rounds .
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