Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |
| 2 | ( If it upset you the first time , please move on to the next paragraph . ) |
| 3 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 4 | It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it . |
| 5 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 6 | And having my kind of build , being quite big and wearing miniskirts , I know that sometimes it gets me the wrong kind of attention from boys only interested in physical relationships . |
| 7 | And it tells you the normal plug rating for a particular appliance . |
| 8 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 9 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 10 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 11 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |
| 12 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |
| 13 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 14 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 15 | It was sweet revenge for Flintshire , who lost out in the corresponding fixture last season , and it gave them the perfect start as they bid to recapture the North Wales county crown . |
| 16 | Robin Barton had been asking his dad , Bernard , about setting up a tropical aquarium , and when they saw PFK 's beginners ' series it gave them the final incentive to begin . |
| 17 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 18 | It gives me the most pain and is like a burning sensation . ’ |
| 19 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 20 | It gives them the upper hand . |
| 21 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 22 | The third strand — the perennial philosophy — deals specifically with consciousness ; combined with the other two strands , it gives us the new paradigm . |
| 23 | It gives you the exclusive right to reproduce your work . |
| 24 | It gives you the fastest route |
| 25 | Well if it if it gives you the required amount or |
| 26 | Er , but I want you to start with this one , because it gives you the most flexibility . |
| 27 | Those obviously include all the further education colleges that do the basic um and the basic things and then the H N C H N D it gives you the open learning things which includes then the private sector people communicate and all sorts of other agencies , erm it depends really what you see as a beginner , do you mean a beginner in the communications field in its entirety , or do you mean a beginner as an in-house industrial editor or a freelancer by definition a beginner is not likely to be a freelancer ? |
| 28 | Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view . |
| 29 | They agree that theological discourse does not make sense in the terms of ordinary language , but whereas for one this effectively consigns theology to the dustbin , for the other it gives it the same sort of status as speaking in tongues . |
| 30 | It struck me the other day . |