Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purchased by the Association in May 1989 , extensive alterations were necessary to convert it to provide for eight residents , the first of whom arrived in September 1990 . |
| 2 | Leave it to stand for 10 minutes and then shape into 8 or 10 burgers . |
| 3 | And when it 's pressed out of the grapes , the juice comes out , they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles . |
| 4 | IF you only need lemon or orange juice in a recipe and not the rind , pour boiling water over the fruit and leave it to stand for 5 minutes to release the maximum amount of juice . |
| 5 | An auto-minute button is handy — just press it to cook for one minute on high ( 100 per cent ) . |
| 6 | It may be possible to encourage it to stay in one area by fitting a spotlight of the mercury vapour variety . |
| 7 | Can you suggest how I might persuade it to stay in one place ? |
| 8 | It is difficult for it to distinguish between one sort of pain and another , when trying to work out what is going wrong . |
| 9 | But in some cases it seems more probable that they are deliberately engineered by the virus to help it to travel from one host to another . |