Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 2 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 3 | ‘ It suddenly struck me how difficult it 's going to be to explain everything to Elise . ’ |
| 4 | It always struck me as ironic that these buildings , which had been designed to make that present appear futuristic , now served so well to make this present look exactly like the recent past . |
| 5 | It always surprised me how few toys were actually used , even though there were cupboards full of them ; toys which indulgent fathers or uncles or stepfathers brought home from trips abroad or from some new shop in Abu Dhabi . |
| 6 | I never asked Daphne but it always puzzled me why one of the pages at the front of the book had been torn out . |
| 7 | It also made it more difficult to obtain maintenance — and this emphasised the stigma of bastardy . |
| 8 | However , it also made it very difficult for dissidence to succeed . |
| 9 | But it also undermined his already fragile self-control . |
| 10 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 11 | You know , they say oh she moved the mustard pot one morning and it really irritated me so much I killed her ! |
| 12 | It never struck me as odd until I had left school , that a school of girls aged from eleven to eighteen should daily be addressed as ‘ children ’ . |