Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 2 | Kamara limped off to be replaced by Falconer after 48 minutes and it needed a well-timed sliding tackle by Phillips to deny Guentchev four minutes later . |
| 3 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 4 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
| 5 | Moreover , Unix can only recognise a maximum of 1,024 devices and it does n't support multiple volume files . |
| 6 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 7 | Well the er consumer appreciation outlined er again that 's divided into two areas and it 's based on the socioeconomic groups and the purchasing patterns of the members of the public . |
| 8 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
| 9 | I mean , you can have a an X J six running for ten seconds and it uses hardly any petrol . |
| 10 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |
| 11 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 12 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 13 | This simple canister squirts a harmless gas into the bottle , so it remains drinkable for up to four weeks and it lasts for over 100 applications . |
| 14 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |