Example sentences of "[pron] [num] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 2 | However , though I can not speak for others , my three boys found it perfectly normal and natural . |
| 3 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 4 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 5 | It took them three hours to bring it under control . |
| 6 | Go to your bank manager and explain your problem , he or she will probably be able to advance you the money to pay these people off straight away and you will then pay the bank the £25 a month , except that because you will pay interest , it will probably take you sixteen months to pay it off instead of fourteen . |
| 7 | Scuba World in its magnanimity has given you five chances to get it right . |
| 8 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 9 | Yeah taken you two years to collect it . |
| 10 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 11 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 12 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 13 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |
| 14 | ‘ He took over a team in turmoil — and it might take him five years to get it right . |
| 15 | It could take him five seasons to get it right |
| 16 | It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat . |
| 17 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 18 | me two weeks to do it I 'm gon na do it and then when it 's finished it 's done right . |
| 19 | It took Ron and myself two days to view it , and compulsive viewing most of it was . |
| 20 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |