Example sentences of "it [verb] four [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 2 | spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go |
| 3 | Novell Inc reckons it has four paths into the Unix market : NetWare , NetWare for Unix , NetWare NFS and Univel Inc . |
| 4 | It has four rows of four columns and piers , each with different capitals , representing biblical scenes with human figures , monsters , demons and a type of Corinthian design . |
| 5 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 6 | It scrawled four shapes in the dust . |
| 7 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 8 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 9 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 10 | It spent four weeks at the top of Off the Record 's local artists chart last summer and after a recent re-release , sales topped 1000 . |
| 11 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 12 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 13 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 14 | It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 15 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 16 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 17 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 18 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 19 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 20 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 21 | Although it fielded no candidates in the prefectural contests , it won four seats in the national constituency . |
| 22 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 23 | It had four storeys above street level , where importantly there was a boutique ( a shop for the sale of musical instruments ) and atelier ( workshop ) ( document 5 ) . |
| 24 | Sure enough , it had four processes around the mouth which looked like antennae . |
| 25 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 26 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 27 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 28 | It comprises four tracks of 16-bit , CD-quality audio ; an anti-aliased title tool supporting PostScript and TrueType fonts ; transition effects , including wipes , dissolves and digital video effects ; 32 levels of undo/redo ; instant full-screen playback of edits . |
| 29 | It induces four hours of sleep , and if you sleep after that it 's a normal sleep . |
| 30 | It appears as the instrumental introduction ( and two instrumental interludes ) , it comes four times in each of the two choruses , and it is still going when the song fades out . |