Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a superbly-run event staged upon a sumptuous golf course , and although it is the youngest of the four major championships , it has built itself a tradition founded on the legendary career of Bobby Jones . |
| 2 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 3 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 4 | It has made him a millionaire but 32-year-old Chris would sell it all tomorrow if he could find a buyer . |
| 5 | He was paid £1,600 for his part in producing a football video nasty and it has cost him a record £20,000 fine . |
| 6 | There is very little actual fish catching to report this month , so with things being slow it has given me a chance to read up on fish nutrition , something I have a reasonable knowledge of due to once working in one of the then leading fish culture units at Aston University . |
| 7 | Now I 've had a few in succession , it has given me a lot more confidence . |
| 8 | It has given me an insight into the way that I behave and that the way that I think definitely affects my actions . |
| 9 | ‘ It has given her a head start over everyone else and trained her in the art of being able to look after herself . |
| 10 | Mentally it has done him a lot of damage . ’ |
| 11 | Once it has decided what the text is ‘ about ’ , it queries each apparently new or discordant topic or action , and amends its database from the writer 's response . |
| 12 | At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace . |
| 13 | He says that Childine must survive because it has proved itself a lifeline for thousands of frightened , lonely and distressed children . |
| 14 | This scientific enthusiasm was invaluable during his three years as President of the Royal Geographical Society and it has earned him a place on the National Environmental Research Council . |
| 15 | So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ . |
| 16 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 17 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
| 18 | It had given me a world of wonder and time to draw it all in . |
| 19 | He had headaches , toothache , his anxiety about the coming week and how he would cope with it had given him a fever . |
| 20 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 21 | It had given her a sense of power that was almost ethereal . |
| 22 | He had held on to her hand as her flight was called , and it had given her the way out without tears . |
| 23 | Anna had explained , and it had given her the opportunity to describe details her daughter found miraculous . |
| 24 | It had made me a coward as well as a lecher . |
| 25 | Therefore it had made itself a ladder . |
| 26 | They thought it was best to know what you were up against , but Preston was n't sure it had done them a lot of good in the long run . |
| 27 | He swallowed ; it had cost him an effort to speak in such a way to his mother . |
| 28 | It had taken them a while to find the taxi-driver . |
| 29 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 30 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |