Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it got three kills , they killed animals for meat , food . |
| 2 | It takes fifteen strokes to get going . |
| 3 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 4 | It took nine tailors to hold the needle up . ’ |
| 5 | It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived . |
| 6 | The disc is an unusual one , featuring as it does seven works originally written for other instruments , from Rachmaninov 's Prelude in G minor to Bach 's Partita in D minor , all in Hall 's own transcriptions . |
| 7 | It stood twenty-five spans high and took four horses to pull it . |
| 8 | It makes fifty stops en route , some of them of considerable duration , and , as has been shown , much time must be wasted at stations . |