Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again my sincere apologies for my absence , as I explained last September , this weekend is my mother 's 80th birthday and it falls to me to host a celebration and to entertain friends and relatives during the weekend . |
| 2 | The conflict develops in the second part where it reaches a climax : in Giselle a death , in Romeo and Juliet several deaths . |
| 3 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 4 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 5 | They protect themselves from too much probing and they appear very secretive in nature but can take ice-cold decisions without a second glance if it suits their purpose . |
| 6 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 7 | It is thought one pin may have failed on the El Al flight , causing an engine to tear free of its mountings and hit the second engine as it fell . |
| 8 | ‘ We were under a bit of pressure in the second half but it was our fault . |
| 9 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 10 | Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side . |
| 11 | At the same time , Alan Smith , the England manager , announced that England would not play the second Test as it was ‘ no longer possible for the Test team to be chosen without restrictions being imposed ’ . |
| 12 | Examples of its use in various ways are to be found in Tristan and Parsifal ( many unaccompanied recitative-like passages ) , Tchaikovsky 's ‘ Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy ’ from the Nutcracker Suite ( very few notes , but marvellously effective ) , Elgar 's Symphony No. 2 ( endless examples of bass clarinet doublings ) , Stravinsky 's Petrushka ( in the 1st scene where it is used with two ordinary clarinets during the extraordinarily realistic hurdy-gurdy episode , and in the Moor 's scene later on with grotesquely sinister effect ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Kenton Ward is like our second home and it would break our hearts if it closed . ’ |
| 14 | Partisanship took second place when it had an influence at all , and often it did not . |
| 15 | Wigan rugby league , they do a very good physio now and he was saying when he was Leigh , he was with Leigh rugby league first of all , they had players in their second team and it was their sole intention |
| 16 | Erm well I tried for years to live with my second husband and it just was impossible ! |
| 17 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 18 | ‘ I got yer second name and it was easy after that . ’ |
| 19 | This was the first time they had reached the second round and it was reflected in the atmosphere , though the official attendance of 3,877 , a record for the purpose-built Meadow Park ground , was hardly accurate . |
| 20 | It could prompt a big swing to the Socialists in the second round or it could push left-wing voters to give up altogether . |
| 21 | On this sheet , on page two , we 've er , we 've performed equation two , right , on the sheet and the second page and it says that there 's , there are two alternative ways of testing for structural change using dummy variables . |
| 22 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 23 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 24 | and play it and it 'll just go on forever , and like my one just past the second song and it 's stuck |
| 25 | The number 1 seed played to form again in the second leg as it moved to Coventry . |
| 26 | In fact , Christy 's hitting a wood for his second shot and it was going way to the left . |
| 27 | This is my second letter and it serves notice that should it provoke no reply it will be followed to Keswick by its author , bent on meeting his old and gallant friend Colonel Hope , who he had heard was passing through those parts for a short while to expedite some business before moving on to another country . ’ |
| 28 | If I could draw members attention to the supplementary papers erm and it 's page three which is the second report and it will become I will make it clear with regards to the er linking up of the two reports , both museums and Essex committee linked up to the museum registration . |
| 29 | The eternal flame went out yesterday for the second time since it was lit on July 26 last year . |
| 30 | I mean they were bright green , and I thought it was a different bike , I did n't even noticed the second time if it was a ladies or a man 's bike . |