Example sentences of "it [verb] him [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it concerned him an awful lot and it it it irritated him and frustrated him and I think he set his sights on trying to do something about it in his his way . |
| 2 | As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole . |
| 3 | As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole . |
| 4 | A new constraint came into his tone when he spoke of ‘ them ’ ; it cost him a giant effort now , as well as a convulsion of remembering pain , to look back towards Aber . |
| 5 | The maverick maestro , who prefers life in scruffy clothes , was lent the gold-trimmed gown by Bath University when it awarded him an honorary degree for musical ability in June last year . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's very sharp , and it took him a good while to accustom himself to the flowers , the boards , the judge 's car , or the judge 's box and all the rest of it . |
| 7 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |
| 8 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 9 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 10 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 11 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 12 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 13 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 14 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It gave him a ghastly feeling of déjà vu . ’ |
| 17 | It gave him a good feeling , it was satisfying , just to think as he walked up the stairs , those floors are mine , this carved wood , these moulded ceilings . |
| 18 | But secretly he loved the idea , and it gave him a great kick to tell his friends and business acquaintances that he was supporting his son on the amateur golf circuit . |
| 19 | He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . |
| 20 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 21 | Reckoned it gave him a psychological advantage . ’ |
| 22 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 23 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it gave him an excellent excuse not to apply his mind to the dismal subjects rearmament , the war in Spain , relations with Hitler , the distressed areas the weight of which had built up during his absence . |
| 25 | ‘ And it suits Florian because it gives him a valid excuse when the women he gets involved with start talking about marriage . ’ |
| 26 | His dream of covering whole counties with a giant speaking-tube may be grotesque in itself , but it makes him a remote ancestor of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell . |
| 27 | It makes him a hard man to place on the political spectrum , as he is in some respects an avowed admirer of Thatcher . |