Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Henry James , The Pupil The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated : it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms , to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and , as it were , of the aristocracy ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all . |
| 3 | It amazed him such a slip of a girl could have such passion in her , and by then he had noticed the perfect contours of her body which neither the black dress nor the prim white apron could conceal . |
| 4 | erm you go in this place and erm and it shows you all the boats and things , and you can have a go on , there 's this thing where they crawl up . |
| 5 | Like the dog 's born er after , before that , and before that , and before that and it showed you all the owners and everything , right ? |
| 6 | And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er |
| 7 | It takes me all the strength I have left to open the door into Contracts . |
| 8 | It takes me half an hour to get from my home in North London to Heathrow Airport via the M25 . |
| 9 | It takes me half an hour to kick you out of bed . |
| 10 | And it takes you all the way there ? |
| 11 | Now the braking , bearing in mind It takes you half a second to react anyway , but hi his actual thinking distance is about thirty feet . |
| 12 | It takes you half an hour to get your card out |
| 13 | I ran for my life , but it followed me all the way home . ’ |
| 14 | If it normally takes you a quarter of an hour to shave , make it take you half an hour . |
| 15 | It tells you all the mistakes he made , before he finally saw the light . |
| 16 | Yes but it tells you all the facilities of print . |
| 17 | I was told not to push then , and I saw the midwife go to cut the cord , and finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about . |
| 18 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 19 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 20 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |
| 21 | It took them half an hour to get the fire under control , and the building , two tractors and a number of farm implements were severely damaged . |
| 22 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 23 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 24 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 25 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
| 26 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 27 | When I was walking past the marsh one , one night , when I was on my way back from school I heard a rus rustling noise behind a bu bush , when I went up the , went up first to the bush a big dragon-like thing jumped out from behind the bush , it gave me such a fright I nearly fainted . |
| 28 | But the ideal is asserted in all areas of psychological method : in observations , questionnaires , interviews , and projective tests , as well as experiments ; and it gives them all a claim on scientific reliability . |
| 29 | He had to ring up that and it gives you all the phone numbers of all the police stations in Bristol . |
| 30 | It gives you all the symptoms ( not literally ) and early warning signs . |