Example sentences of "it [adv prt] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they must have had a bleeper on my car ; I never checked , and they 'd have taken it away when they caught up — damn it , it 's what I 'd have done : a simple radio bleeper with a magnet , you can stick it on in two seconds . |
| 2 | The present landlady , Mrs Margaret Saunders took it on in 1941 when Polish servicemen from a nearby camp were regulars . |
| 3 | At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment . |
| 4 | Bill takes a Coke , rips the ring pull cleanly off like painful bandaging and drinks it down in one , like it was a glass of water . |
| 5 | She poured herself an uncustomary drink , and grimacing , swallowed it down in two gulps . |
| 6 | The old Eythrope house which had stood near to Bridge Lodge had belonged to the Earls of Chesterfield , who had pulled it down in 1810 and made the most of the high price of building materials then prevailing owing to the Napoleonic wars . |
| 7 | In fact , I made a major decision in '84 , and followed it through in '86 . |
| 8 | Every time the woman was marking off the numbers Shaney was turning the card over , you know , she turned it over in six cards . |
| 9 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 10 | You can bring it off in one step with 99 per cent purity . ’ |
| 11 | After a couple of hours , peel it off in one layer and scrub the wood thoroughly with water and a stiff brush . |
| 12 | If you can get it off in one piece , so much the better ; if you can not , pull the centre far enough away from the wall to allow you to cut through the board with a padsaw or jig saw , and free each half separately . |
| 13 | Cos you can pay it off in ten monthly instalments you see so eight quid a month sort of thing . |
| 14 | I er in fact you 've wrapped it up in one sentence . |
| 15 | If you 're going to sum it up in one word ? |
| 16 | I 'm gon na pay it up in one |
| 17 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 18 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 19 | Well Done , all those Teachers and Class members who have been contributing in many ways , and keep it up in 1985 . |
| 20 | Cos the key thing with Clare is , she 's don she 's obviously gone back doing a lot , but who 's gon na follow it up in three months time , to see |
| 21 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 22 | For example , on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's erm water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that lot up , it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through , and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us , ‘ Well , as councillors , well , do this for us , ’ and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air . |
| 23 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 24 | And you might like , on paper , have the money like , by the end of the like , year or whatever but paying it out in one go or |
| 25 | We produce a press release every week in advance send it out in forty three publications . |
| 26 | Nigger picked up his scotch and tossed it back in one easy movement . |
| 27 | He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go . |
| 28 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 29 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
| 30 | Took it in part exchange last week and I 've got a buyer coming Wednesday so I want it back in one piece . |