Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it made it ten times worse . |
| 2 | Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway . |
| 3 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 4 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 5 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 6 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 7 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 8 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 9 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 10 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 11 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
| 12 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 13 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 14 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 15 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 16 | Anna would n't speak of it at all for some time ; later we heard about Simon 's will — he left her various things , his art library for instance ( it 's a wonderful one ) — and it gave her some kind of peace . |
| 17 | And it gave it some condition , you know , when I |
| 18 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 19 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
| 20 | Well I said Angie said she went up Wicks ' and got her worktops and it cost her fifteen pound . |
| 21 | Bins in town and it cost her twenty quid ! |
| 22 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 23 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 24 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 25 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 26 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 27 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 28 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 29 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 30 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |