Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It led him to spend endless hours in the House of Commons , far more than any Prime Minister for many years before , far more than any of his successors . |
2 | It led me to ponder two questions . |
3 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
4 | Thanks once again for a charming picture — it made me smile all day . |
5 | So the A fifty nine well let me put it let me put another question , does the A sixty one serve a similar function to the A fifty nine ? |
6 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
7 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
8 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
9 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
10 | It seemed we needed thirty copies of everything , stamped and signed at least twice . |
11 | It seemed he heard that question again , a thousand years ago and in another world . |
12 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
13 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
14 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
15 | And it needed something to break that cycle . |
16 | It hurt him to see such changes in her . |
17 | It meant we got good recruits . |
18 | A coupla years ago , it meant you had good contacts and you used them well . |
19 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
20 | In the time it took you to write this letter you could have stripped the guitar down , sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and fitted new strings — you do change your strings occasionally , I assume ? |
21 | It did nothing to provide better child care for women wishing to return to work . |
22 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
23 | Erm I meant to ask you about the inside of the the coffin was that plain white material or was it did it have this u pattern on it as well . |
24 | It saved me doing temporary work which I do n't much care for . ’ |
25 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
26 | From her expression , it appeared she had little faith that this august personage would oblige . |
27 | Oh it said in the , in the book when I read about it , it said it had green flowers , you say is that green flowers |
28 | It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases . |
29 | er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out . |