Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than anything , it revealed to her a suppressed but undeniable respect for Damian , and she hated knowing she respected him . |
| 2 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 3 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 4 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 5 | It seemed to me a natural thing to do . |
| 6 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 7 | It seemed to her a wonderful invention , making far more of a single egg than any British concoction , easily digestible , tasting rich , sweet and thoroughly sustaining . |
| 8 | It seemed to her a precious gift , far more than just an alleviation of present discomfort . |
| 9 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 10 | It brought with it a wrinkled piece of brown paper tumbling down the street . |
| 11 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 12 | It brought to him a sublime peace and contentment . |
| 13 | Surprisingly she knew it mattered to her a great deal . |
| 14 | They must have been — it meant for me a round journey of more than eighty miles just for a home fixture . |
| 15 | Unfortunately it bought with it a heavy infestation of ‘ Bundesbank ’ cockroaches , sponsored by the cockroach travel company . |
| 16 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 17 | Like many great cities , it fostered within it an active turbulent group of middle and lower citizens , with some local nobles among them , and with a strongly anticlerical flavour to it . |
| 18 | It had on it an enormous photo of Bernard in hot pursuit of a cartoon of two bikini clad girls . |
| 19 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |