Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [pron] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has interested me very much to learn from the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force that after the war , since nothing had been heard of Warrant Officer Crane 's Stirling , its crew and S.A.S. passengers , a search was made of the Morvan region . |
| 2 | ‘ Edith does not keep her Jewish faith , as she thinks it has brought her too much trouble ’ , reported Rabbi van der Zyl . |
| 3 | Why did it have to bother him so much ? |
| 4 | As Eve had anticipated , it did win them much more freedom . |
| 5 | It had caused her too much pain . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes — from Italy , ’ Rosemary replied , and Leith could clearly hear a smile in her friend 's voice as though it had cheered her so much to hear Travis . |
| 7 | Her father Alan ( 43 ) , a garage owner , said : ‘ She was due to start a new school today and it had upset her that much just thinking about it . ’ |
| 8 | Except that that kiss and her response to it had taken her so much by surprise that , even in hindsight , she did not see how she could have forestalled it . |
| 9 | No one else was sure if they agreed , but they did know it had taken him nearly half an hour to get through , and the conversation had been brief . |
| 10 | But it does concern me very much , not just the loss of jobs but it 's the loss of services in this area . |
| 11 | Stu , I mean I live in Glasgow , the chances of me leaving Glasgow are pro , pre pretty slim but yeah , I certainly do n't want to stay in Scotland because of any loyalty , that I do n't think it 's given me very much other than a lot of experience , a lot of struggle , a lot of opportunities to stand alongside working class people and fight against , you know , the injustices . |
| 12 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
| 13 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 14 | It 's bitten me twice this morning already . |
| 15 | It 's taken me long enough god knows but |