Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Brian had his cholesterol test on er little bit of paper they give you with all the information it tells you the only oils you should use are erm olive oil and saffro saffrall |
| 9 | And it tells you the normal plug rating for a particular appliance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |
| 14 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 20 | It gives me the most pain and is like a burning sensation . ’ |
| 21 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 22 | It gives them the upper hand . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The third strand — the perennial philosophy — deals specifically with consciousness ; combined with the other two strands , it gives us the new paradigm . |
| 25 | And it gives us the right answers . |
| 26 | It gives you the exclusive right to reproduce your work . |
| 27 | It gives you the fastest route |
| 28 | Well if it if it gives you the required amount or |
| 29 | Er , but I want you to start with this one , because it gives you the most flexibility . |
| 30 | 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 ? |