Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [num] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could never bring myself to live there , ’ she said , and then , in a way characteristic of her , ‘ Besides , it needs thousands spent on it before civilized people could live in it . ’ |
| 2 | It features seven place setting capacity and with its three programmes — pre-rinse , normal and superwash — you 're sure of sparkling plates , glasses and cutlery every time . |
| 3 | It says thousands have packed city centre to cheer her and it said the fervour surprised republicans who have criticized the visit . |
| 4 | It includes three master/slave SBus slots , up to 128Mb internal memory , an Optal-Mechanical mouse and Type 5 Sparc keyboard . |
| 5 | It takes fifteen strokes to get going . |
| 6 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 7 | Solomon might have replied ( the records do not give his side of the story ) that it takes two to quarrel . |
| 8 | Do not forget the old adage ‘ It takes two to pull ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities . |
| 10 | If it takes two to make an argument then each side must choose an issue over which some values ( ideals ? ) conflict . |
| 11 | Of course , it takes two to make an argument . |
| 12 | But the cold war 's neat polarities can hardly be carried on : it takes two to make a war , hot or cold . |
| 13 | It takes two to tango , the United Nations secretary-general observed after pre-war talks with Saddam Hussein . |
| 14 | It takes two to tango ; and if one of them will not , there is no dance . |
| 15 | I should point out that in one of the features of adhesions is that it takes two to tango , so to speak ! |
| 16 | Where a character is obviously working class , such as in ‘ It Takes Two to Tango ’ , where the heiress ' dancing partner is a bit of ‘ rough ’ , the dialogue is written as Cockney ! |
| 17 | It takes two to tango , however , and I suspect we 'll still be here tomorrow discussing it . ’ |
| 18 | Yet it takes two to compromise . |
| 19 | ( It takes two to play a game ) . |
| 20 | But it takes two to get pregnant , and it is just as important to educate boys about contraception . |
| 21 | It takes three to tango . |
| 22 | It unites six established British artists who might be linked in a wider definition of The School of London . |
| 23 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It makes fifty stops en route , some of them of considerable duration , and , as has been shown , much time must be wasted at stations . |