Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ghost of his burning ; an ugly mask-fire , fear and evil-a mark that had spread across his face ; it had not covered him completely . |
| 2 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 3 | It had not taken her long . |
| 4 | It had not taken her long to realise that here was a vindictive old villain , bent on making her life as miserable as he possibly could . |
| 5 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 6 | It had not taken him long , Ashley thought wryly . |
| 7 | Its contract expired earlier this month , but last year an independent consultancy recommended California replace its existing system , it had already purchased it outright from G Tec for sixty million dollars . |
| 8 | But Adam had taken that line and it had n't done him much good . |
| 9 | Whatever the world had done to the little wide-eyed innocent who got eaten up by a bad wolf in the big city , it had n't taught her much . |
| 10 | And it had n't helped him much either . |
| 11 | While I was on the smack , it had n't bothered me much 'cos smack 's a good painkiller . |
| 12 | Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours ! |
| 13 | It had n't taken them long , but she knew instinctively as they hurried into the hollow gloom of the station that they had missed yet another train . |
| 14 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 15 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 16 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 17 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 18 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 19 | If her relationship with Tyler had brought her a deal of heartache , it had also brought her so much more . |
| 20 | I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image . |
| 21 | It was probably only a rabbit , but it had still unnerved her slightly , and she pulled off the drive and parked on the grass . |
| 22 | He had tried to give her an injection but it had only made her more hysterical . |