Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had caused her too much pain . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes — from Italy , ’ Rosemary replied , and Leith could clearly hear a smile in her friend 's voice as though it had cheered her so much to hear Travis . |
| 3 | Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night . |
| 4 | And it had cost them about fifteen or something . |
| 5 | Her father Alan ( 43 ) , a garage owner , said : ‘ She was due to start a new school today and it had upset her that much just thinking about it . ’ |
| 6 | It had taken her over four years , but here she was at last . |
| 7 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 8 | Except that that kiss and her response to it had taken her so much by surprise that , even in hindsight , she did not see how she could have forestalled it . |
| 9 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 10 | It had taken her so long to walk round , it took hardly more than three minutes in the boat . |
| 11 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 12 | It had taken them almost two hundred and fifty of Quiss 's " days " to discover what the way out was . |
| 13 | It had taken them only ten minutes to reach this far . |
| 14 | No one else was sure if they agreed , but they did know it had taken him nearly half an hour to get through , and the conversation had been brief . |
| 15 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 16 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 17 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |