Example sentences of "[adv] [num ord] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only last year it suddenly shut its Speedlink service for individual wagonloads of freight . |
| 2 | You 've been in bed for eight o'clock last night it 's now nine what 's that , thirteen odd hours ? |
| 3 | If it 's not First Aid it 's the Knitting Socks for Icelandic Seamen Club . ’ |
| 4 | Just last year it handled six million pounds worth of claims from churches hit by crime . |
| 5 | RBIC head office was originally in Edinburgh but early last year it was relocated in a refurbished office block at 152 West Regent Street , Glasgow . |
| 6 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 7 | Increasingly in the later eighteenth century it was felt , at least in intellectual and opinion-forming circles , that monarchy was on trial , that kings must now provide not merely good government but progressive government . |
| 8 | A hundred years earlier such an expedient might well have been used to impress envoys from some European state ; but by the later eighteenth century it showed merely that the Indians were exotic visitors from outside the European diplomatic system who might be influenced by such essentially childish devices . |
| 9 | And , the people that were milling around us when you 're trying to drink a cup of coffee stood up last year it was just the , you know , people are not |
| 10 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 11 | And unfortunately second half it did n't come right but as I say we 've got a point out of it so we still you know , kept ourselves unbeaten for a game or two , so we 've just got to try keep it going and take it from there . |
| 12 | When I was there last year it cost only £12 : the rate had gone down due to the Gulf war and the fear of AIDS . |
| 13 | Pro-lifers will claim that if we allow experiments up to 14 days , then next year it will be a month , then three months . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , pro-choicers argue that if we restrict abortion to 18 weeks , then next year it will be 15 , then 12 . |
| 15 | and then next week it 's it 's easier easier subjects . |
| 16 | According to Neill Macklin , marketing director for Hutchison , there are two reasons for the slow take-up : that the company realised late last year it did not have sufficient geographical coverage to promote the service fully , and because it ‘ had n't predicted the onslaught from the low-cost cellular services [ of Cellnet and Vodafone ] ’ . |
| 17 | Late last year it released version 3 of WinFax Pro , which improved on an already good package . |
| 18 | Tomorrow the Transport Secretary John MacGregor reintroduces the bill to privatize British Rail to the House of Commons , it had a rough journey through the House of Lords and until late last week it looked set for a stormy passage through the Commons too , but then Mr MacGregor introduced a series of amendments that everyone assumes will satisfy the rebellious Tory MP s , but as Michael Gold reports , there are still obstacles for Mr MacGregor to surmount . |
| 19 | Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman 's authority — Neath — has a debt of £25 million on its housing revenue account , yet last year it did not redeem a penny of it . |
| 21 | For instance , in the very first passage it gives a much better explanation of what all the excitement is about when a messenger arrives hotfoot telling of the habitual ‘ skirmish of wit ’ between Beatrice and Benedict provides the comedy with its starting-point , as in the play itself . |
| 22 | I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ . |