Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 2 | It cost me six hundred bucks — three hundred pounds ! — makes you want to vomit on your parents does n't it ! |
| 3 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 4 | So , sh I mean , it cost her thirty five pounds ! |
| 5 | But it cost us thirty seven pound a month . |
| 6 | For one crazy , idiotic moment , Leith thought Naylor might have disposed of Sebastian 's deerstalker because it caused him some small degree of jealousy to see another man 's hat in her home . |
| 7 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 8 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 9 | Sean admits it was a tough time and it taught her some hard lessons . |
| 10 | A Hunter rubbed the cold , clammy substance over his face , making sure that it covered his one remaining eye . |
| 11 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 12 | Well I studied an art class in the school and it took me twenty five minutes to walk from my house . |
| 13 | It took them four fuming hours . |
| 14 | It took them nineteen hundred years to decide , but then God dwells in eternity , and the Church too , so there 's no hurry . |
| 15 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 16 | Last year it took them three full days to clear the stable and make a heap of the black peat-like mal outside . |
| 17 | It took him 14 more laps before he could squeeze alongside Brundle , and run him wheel-to-wheel through the same right-left-right triple turn . |
| 18 | It took him another five minutes to get across the fact that no , he was not a doctor but yes , he was a friend , a very good friend . |
| 19 | It took him twenty five minutes on , on his computer , |
| 20 | It took him several long moments to work out where ground was , where sky was , and where he was . |
| 21 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 22 | I argued , I fought , but he wanted to believe that happiness was impossible ; it gave him some strange consolation . |
| 23 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 24 | This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service . |