Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 2 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 3 | Eastman Kodak put Interactive on the block at least six months ago because it did not fit its core business interests . |
| 4 | And I cleared the lot except six baskets and they were all in good condition , so I was glad of these six baskets really because it helped you to give them one or two more . |
| 5 | De Burgh wrote Lady in Red for Diane six years ago and it became a No 1 across the world . |
| 6 | all the way round , that 's about three times across and it 's got to be that way round , the all the way round , over how far across . |
| 7 | Listen to what they say — maybe some place coming free soon , maybe some place they could have let you have three months back but it went to someone else . |
| 8 | It first appeared three lines ago where it referred to the suns ability to give life to the earth of a cold star . |
| 9 | Well , we recognized that two three years ago but it has n't been filled yet |
| 10 | But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid ! |
| 11 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 12 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 13 | ‘ We switched Brian further forward with half an hour to go at Portsmouth three matches ago and it has produced results , ’ said manager Malcolm Crosby . |
| 14 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 15 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 16 | At 1989 prices , this would turn the first British PWR into a £2 billion project even before it had generated a single kilowatt of electricity . |
| 17 | The well was very deep , about fifty metres down and it took Jennifer ten minutes to complete the task of lowering and raising the bucket . |
| 18 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 19 | Instead I put my head to one side so that it rested against the cold glass of the window , closed my eyes and let my mouth hang open a little . |
| 20 | Trim the top large piece on one side so that it slopes to join with the first small piece , and trim the very top small piece in the same way . |
| 21 | He was delivered in a birthing pool five years ago and it convinced his mother in favour of a repeat experience . |
| 22 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 23 | It was a face that Joseph and Flavia Sherman would have recognized instantly from their encounter with the Annamese journalist in the palace of Khai Dinh at Tet exactly five years earlier because it had changed little , if at all , in the interval of time . |
| 24 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 25 | The alternative , which revolves around the controlled clogging of one filter so that it begins the anaerobic denitrification process while the other handles aerobic filtration ( the 15/30 method referring to the day of the month when each filter must be alternatively cleaned ) , has never worked for us . |
| 26 | ‘ We were 13 floors up and it turned out the furniture — which landed on a car — was worth £6,000 . |
| 27 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 28 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 29 | He had a stroke four months ago and it 's left him extremely weak down the left side of his body . |
| 30 | Partners in the south coast firm of Hook Harris & Co , which hit the headlines two months ago when it entered into an individual voluntary arrangement with its creditors , have bought the two main practices from the joint supervisors of the IVA . |