Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hold it for a few seconds , maybe five , then release it . |
| 32 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 33 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 34 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 35 | Lisa struck a pose of melodramatic fervour and held it for a few seconds before slumping back in her seat . |
| 36 | Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too . |
| 37 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
| 38 | We will just ask you can we have a look at it for a few days . |
| 39 | ‘ Do n't use it for a few days , and see how it goes . ’ |
| 40 | It would be a holiday to discard the worry of it for a few days . |
| 41 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 42 | I support the intention of the Bill and its important deterrent aspects , and I shall support it for the same reason as the hon. Member for Oxford , East , but I must confess that I do so with some reluctance at this stage . |
| 43 | Er I mean it brings it about the same price as we 're paying anyway does n't it ? |
| 44 | It was highly synchronized , occurring in all major capitalist countries it about the same time . |
| 45 | Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction . |
| 46 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 47 | Much of this music has no other recording — and none of it on the harp , and King plays it with rare strength , sensitivity and the conviction of one who is also inventing it as the same time — and is delighted by his own trouvailles . |
| 48 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 49 | How many of us would n't be happy to make it through a half century in half as good shape . |
| 50 | Well I do n't see how , all you 've got to do is turn it upside down , you could still run it through the same way |
| 51 | With a less diversified business , the likelihood grows that , while he is satisfied with the service he gets , he will keep his business , at least for a period , with the same insurer , and place it through the same broker . |
| 52 | While many among the 5,933 crowd may argue against Stainrod 's claim , there was little doubt in the validity of it during the latter stages of what was a north-east affair rich in incident if not quality . |
| 53 | So it worth a few bob . |
| 54 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 55 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 56 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 57 | The Government 's objective was to make the industry more efficient , to bring it into the latter part of the 20th century and to make it possible for British mines to produce competitively . |
| 58 | Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all |
| 59 | " Take either currants , mulberries , raspberries or strawberries , sprinkle them with a little rose-water ; press out the juice , and draw the milk out of the cow 's udder into it ; sweeten it with a little sugar , and beat it well with birchen twigs , till it froth up ; then strew over it a little fine beaten cinamon , and it will be an excellent mess . |
| 60 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |