Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [subord] [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 2 | ‘ Generally , everything happened about four to six weeks after I wanted it to . ’ |
| 3 | Girl On A Motorcycle and we still owe six pounds because we took it back late , so because of that we 've had nothing since |
| 4 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 5 | The phone rang half a dozen times before he answered it . |
| 6 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 7 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 8 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 9 | The hay was only alight for 3 seconds before he put it out with his hand . |
| 10 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 11 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 12 | erm About five years after I started it , I think everything was , was growing up , and erm I have n't done the major things recently , I 'm just doing gentle management . |
| 13 | it was forty five degrees so you thought it was one , but the scale was two to one . |
| 14 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 15 | It does n't seem two minutes since I saw it last oh big fat tummy , big fat tummy or what ? |
| 16 | It was better to work out what she believed about the events of the previous two hours before she shared it with Marlin . |
| 17 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |
| 18 | In 1959 , fifty-one years after he intended it should be published , D. H. Lawrence 's notorious novel Lady Chatterley 's Lover made its unexpurgated appearance in the United States . |
| 19 | One of our church members became the paid administrator for the centre in which now , two years after we used it first and one year after it opened to the public , there are dance classes ; keep fit ; carpet bowls ; drama ; OAP 's club ; card club ; ballroom dancing ; judo etc . |
| 20 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 21 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 22 | Two days after we made it public that we are suing the head of the national and military police , we got bomb threats against our building . |
| 23 | Perhaps the oak would lay there for three or four years before we used it . |
| 24 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 25 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 26 | He was the head of fine art at the school of art for 20 years until he gave it all up to paint fulltime . |