Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 2 | It smothered him like dense mist . |
| 3 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 4 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 5 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 6 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 7 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 8 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 10 | It took me by complete surprise . |
| 11 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 12 | Strange because it reminded him of other bedroom partings : sheets tangled , sweat cooling , confusion and self-reproach keeping glances at bay . |
| 13 | Oddly , instead of reminding me of Bill , it reminded me of Old Red . |
| 14 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 15 | It stood her in good stead when it came to the areas of change which are always necessary in an organisation approaching its centenary . |
| 16 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 17 | It stood them in good stead again in 1976 when drought caused many villages to be supplied with stand pipes . |
| 18 | At least it stood us in good stead for Tuesday night 's game at Scrimley Arsenal , where we came away with a very creditable 2–4 defeat . |
| 19 | He found the experience of working in a wide variety of company departments invaluable and believes it held him in good stead when he reached the higher echelons of management . |