Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground .
3 It made it a cosy scene , an effect enhanced by the glow of several candles placed in tall sconces against the wall .
4 As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell .
5 It cost me a two-stroke penalty and £3,500 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It taught me a harsh lesson .
9 As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this .
10 And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match .
11 It took me a long while to pay it off .
12 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
13 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
14 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
15 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 .
16 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
17 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
18 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 .
19 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
20 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
21 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
22 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
23 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 It took me a long time to find .
27 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
28 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
29 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
30 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
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