Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [det] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 2 | Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’ |
| 3 | I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that |
| 4 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 5 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 6 | Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking . |
| 7 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 8 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 9 | Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ . |
| 10 | As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger . |