Example sentences of "it [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moffatt , whose long lay-off was due to a facial injury , made it eight wins in a row ( five inside the distance ) by forcing Dhalie into retirement at the end of the fourth round with a damaged shoulder . |
| 2 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 3 | LUCA CUMANI improved his impressive Brighton record when the strapping Declassified made it 22 winners from 40 runners at the track in five years for the Newmarket trainer . |
| 4 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 5 | That 's it six sets of two . |
| 6 | and like six pound something when I , and six pound forty when I had Eran , so I thought if we call it six pounds for a Saturday , when you have Jordan I 'll give you three pound |
| 7 | It is not fair to say the City will only look at it six months at a time . ’ |
| 8 | Give it six months at least . |
| 9 | It 's not right they were out of it six months before then . |
| 10 | FARNELL Electronics has confounded the doubters and increased earnings per share yet again in the recessionary 12 months to February 2 , giving it 26 years of uninterrupted growth . |
| 11 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 12 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 13 | Begin with the corner motif , positioning it 7 cm from the edge . |
| 14 | SCOTLAND made it three wins on the trot in the Home International Indoor Championships in Swansea yesterday despite losing out in their final fixture with England , 106-113 . |
| 15 | John Griffin , from St John 's AC in County Kerry and Connie Kelly from Blackrock AC , both made it three wins in a row , clocking 48:17 and 57:32 respectively . |
| 16 | On Tuesday night last the ‘ Dream Team ’ were trying to make it three wins in a row . |
| 17 | Can Nigel Mansell in the Williams car from Didcot make it three victories in a row ? |
| 18 | The new Emperor called for lights , examined the face , then thrust at it three times with a sword . |
| 19 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 20 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 21 | What is equally undeniable is Die Auferstehung 's status as a masterwork ( Mozart conducted it three times in 1788 , expressing no small amount of enthusiasm ) , and this recording 's fine presentation of the piece , worthy to stand beside Hermann Max 's [ see my review of JS Bach 's Magnificat below — Ed. ] splendid Capriccio recording ( coupled with . |
| 22 | Debut winger , Innes Gray , scored two tries in three minutes as Ulster took control in the final quarter , and flanker Kevin McKee made it three tries in five minutes . |
| 23 | Tony Jarrett , who grabbed the bronze in Tokyo after Jackson 's late withdrawal , was a smooth-looking second behind America 's Tony Dees , and Hughie Teape made it three Brits in the semis as a fastest loser . |
| 24 | So what we 'll do is we 'll have It 's also actually equals X squared plus erm we 'll make it three X minus No I 'll not be I 'll not be nasty . |
| 25 | While the report was acknowledging considerable dieback , the press release which accompanied it three days before Christmas ( a traditional moment for government departments to ‘ bury ’ embarrassing statistics ) spoke only of ‘ no sign … of the forest decline which is of such great concern in central Europe ’ . |
| 26 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 27 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
| 28 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
| 29 | The double took Carroll 's score this year to 67 but , more significantly , made it 50 winners for him on horses trained by his boss . |
| 30 | McNab briefly revived it 13 minutes from the end with a sizzling 20-yard strike for the third goal . |