Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 6 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 7 | And it needed something to break that cycle . |
| 8 | It hurt him to see such changes in her . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | It did nothing to provide better child care for women wishing to return to work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |