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

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1 As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole .
2 As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole .
3 After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground .
4 It made it a cosy scene , an effect enhanced by the glow of several candles placed in tall sconces against the wall .
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 It taught me a harsh lesson .
8 And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match .
9 As for playing the Manson , well , it took me a little time to get into it .
10 It took me a long while to pay it off .
11 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
12 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
13 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
14 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 .
15 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
16 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
17 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 .
18 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
19 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
20 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
21 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
22 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 It took me a long time to find .
26 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
27 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
28 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
29 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
30 I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there
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