Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And it concerned him an awful lot and it it it irritated him and frustrated him and I think he set his sights on trying to do something about it in his his way .
2 As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole .
3 As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole .
4 After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground .
5 It made it a cosy scene , an effect enhanced by the glow of several candles placed in tall sconces against the wall .
6 As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell .
7 It cost me a two-stroke penalty and £3,500 .
8 A new constraint came into his tone when he spoke of ‘ them ’ ; it cost him a giant effort now , as well as a convulsion of remembering pain , to look back towards Aber .
9 Cos it helped me the last time .
10 The maverick maestro , who prefers life in scruffy clothes , was lent the gold-trimmed gown by Bath University when it awarded him an honorary degree for musical ability in June last year .
11 It taught me a harsh lesson .
12 As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this .
13 And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match .
14 As for playing the Manson , well , it took me a little time to get into it .
15 It took me a long while to pay it off .
16 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
17 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
18 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
19 It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors .
20 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
21 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
22 It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like .
23 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
24 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
25 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
26 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
27 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
28 Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot .
29 It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them .
30 It took me a long time to find .
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