Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " 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 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 . |
| 7 | Partisanship took second place when it had an influence at all , and often it did not . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 10 | and play it and it 'll just go on forever , and like my one just past the second song and it 's stuck |
| 11 | The number 1 seed played to form again in the second leg as it moved to Coventry . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 14 | According to the leading present-day authority on this sector , Professor Supple , it was over the course of the eighteenth century that it assumed its modern form and structure , with agencies and branches , inter-company coordination of premium rates and policy conditions , and averaging of claims . |
| 15 | It seems reasonable to conclude that the situation described by economists as a " backward-sloping supply curve for labour " , meaning that contrary to expectations a higher price produces a decrease in labour offered , was less generally true in the mid eighteenth century than it had been earlier . |
| 16 | Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Nanchang CJ-6A N3104U was sold on the 18th for $ 40,000 and then the buyer re-entered the aircraft on the 19th auction where it did not sell . |
| 18 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 19 | Exactly when , we do n't know , it may have been as late as the thirteenth century before it cut its way through . |
| 20 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 21 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 22 | It was my first play and it came about by accident , evolving out of that Tolstoy play I was supposed to adapt for the BBC . |
| 23 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 24 | The musts An idea does not get past first base unless it meets the musts contained within the problem specification . |
| 25 | ‘ You may stay and catch the ferry at first light when it crosses but that is your decision . ’ |
| 26 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
| 27 | Whereas in the past Northern Ireland was always the furthest point on the beach that the tide reached , and therefore the first point that it left , on this occasion we entered the recession later and weathered it better . |
| 28 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 29 | ‘ When they came in they talked of the first team and it seemed an offer I could n't refuse ; with hindsight , I should never have gone . ’ |
| 30 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |