Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it made it ten times worse . |
| 2 | Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway . |
| 3 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 4 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 5 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 6 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 7 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 8 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 9 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 10 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 11 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 12 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 13 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
| 14 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 15 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 16 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |