Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It applied its new cash limits to approvals of local capital spending and to local grants . |
| 2 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 3 | It made her golden shoulders quiver . |
| 4 | The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel . |
| 5 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |
| 6 | Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play . |
| 7 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 8 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 9 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 10 | It seemed her true love had sent her a present from a partridge in a pear tree . |
| 11 | Like tourists who visit for the first time , it seemed our resident rabbits sensed the tranquil harmony that is the essence of this tiny unspoilt paradise in the Mediterranean . |
| 12 | It seemed my aerial escapade had been worthwhile . |
| 13 | The decision caused consternation on both sides of the House , because it confirmed what many people feared : that Britain was slipping too far behind the superpowers ; and was , indeed , losing a measure of her sovereignty . |
| 14 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 15 | There the microscopic ovum was revealed and followed as it started its monthly journey to await possible fertilisation . |
| 16 | Yet somehow it brought him more explaining to do . |
| 17 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
| 18 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 19 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 20 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 21 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 22 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 24 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 25 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 26 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 27 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 29 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 30 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |