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

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1 The skull with the lead in it doth weigh thirty pounds and sixe ounces , which with the neck-bone , and some other bones ( in like manner full of lead ) are reserued , and kept in a little chest in the said Church , neare to the place where the corps were found ; there to bee showne to strangers as reliques of admiration .
2 It did manage one win , though , but that was in the back of Jim Clarke 's Lotus 43 .
3 The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) .
4 Now , that is something , that one would find difficult to accept normally , erm , but seeing as our Councillor has been chair of transportation , I believe in the past and also leader of the County Council , that then it it does make one wonder about erm , bud bud budgeting and raising expectations of people around the county unnecessarily .
5 The CD is entitled ‘ A Gershwin Concert ’ ; and , indeed , it does contain two Gershwin items .
6 But it does suggest one reform which , if it went through , would deal with many such doubts .
7 An extra 10 hp a side may not be a mind-blowing power increase but it does represent 330,000 foot lbs per minute and , at its increased maximum weight of 3800 lbs , the new model would , with one engine out , climb at 180 ft/min , or almost 300 ft/min at lighter weights .
8 After all , it does provide 135 bhp as opposed to only 114 bhp and yet gives better fuel economy .
9 But it does have seven times the number of homicides .
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