Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [num] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so I 'm going to do ten take away , now I 'll put some brackets where that six was I do n't want to write a six , I 'm going to write it as five add one . |
| 2 | But there you 'd do it in three goes I mean , you could probably do it in two goes , but to be safe you could split it up into three goes so |
| 3 | But there you 'd do it in three goes I mean , you could probably do it in two goes , but to be safe you could split it up into three goes so |
| 4 | Now I should be able to say ten take away , I 'm going to write six in here , instead of six I 'm going to put it as nine take away three . |
| 5 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 6 | The decision to keep it at 23 means fewer fixtures , less money and a greater likelihood of further clubs folding . |
| 7 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 8 | With the move to the new system , we 're abolishing that subsidy , but we 're doing it in two goes : 50% of it this year and all of it will go next year . |
| 9 | Do n't work out what that comes to , leave it as four squared plus one . |
| 10 | One yearned for Richards to make the romantics smile by sending in two bowlers to polish them off , reflecting that when Percy Chapman did it with fifteen needed against Australia in 1928–9 ( and lost two wickets ! ) , |
| 11 | But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take . |
| 12 | Both may find a certain irony in the fact that some of the CPF industrial co-operatives founded in the 1880s are still trading successfully , while many retail co-operatives have failed , and have in the process of rescue become assimilated into other societies , so losing their individual identities and the reality of the democratic practice they are meant to activate , From well over 1,000 retail societies in the 1930s , the number has dwindled to 100 ; and the possibility of reducing it to 25 has been discussed ( see Chapter 1 above ) . |