Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 2 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 3 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 4 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 5 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 6 | It so happened her first shop , called The Body Shop , opened next door to an undertaker 's in Brighton . |
| 7 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 8 | If it occasionally had Cnut in difficulties , it also offered him considerable opportunities , and it is no less generous to the historian , who is better informed upon it than any other aspect of Cnut 's rule . |
| 9 | A sort of Celtic Spinal Tap for Teds , it also gave us seminal TV villain Eddie McClockerty , played by the god-like Richard Wilson . |
| 10 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 11 | But it really hit her this year , we felt quite disgruntled |
| 12 | But it never did it any good they never got to run their own economy . |
| 13 | Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm . |