Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] a [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 | It cost me a two-stroke penalty and £3,500 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It taught me a harsh lesson . |
| 10 | As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this . |
| 11 | And it brought them a great try that , in the final analysis , won them the match . |
| 12 | As for playing the Manson , well , it took me a little time to get into it . |
| 13 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 14 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
| 15 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 16 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 19 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 22 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 23 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 24 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 25 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 29 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 30 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |