Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rock was in just three pieces when it arrived and needed to be hammered into the correct sizes for the set-up . |
| 2 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 3 | ‘ Make foreign things work for China ’ , ran one slogan but it recognised that ‘ flies and pests ’ would come in through the open door as well as fresh air to revitalise the stuffy atmosphere in China . |
| 4 | In bays , the tide tends to flow around the bay in one direction as it rises and then reverses as it falls . |
| 5 | Erskine House Group Plc shares nose-dived 14 pence to land at 27 pence after it said that its final dividend for 1992 will , at most , be nominal , saying that January and February had been dire in the US . |
| 6 | But it did n't , because its jinx first struck 16 days after it opened when fire completely gutted the building . |
| 7 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 8 | In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions . |
| 9 | It should be noted , however , that there are only two miracles where it states that Jesus healed out of a sense of compassion or pity ( Mark 1:41 ; Luke 7:13 ) . |
| 10 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 11 | The one I selected guaranteed 10 minutes of power backup , but I found it could run for over 20 minutes before it signalled that it was out of storage capacity . |