Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Henry James , The Pupil The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated : it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms , to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and , as it were , of the aristocracy ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all . |
| 3 | It amazed him such a slip of a girl could have such passion in her , and by then he had noticed the perfect contours of her body which neither the black dress nor the prim white apron could conceal . |
| 4 | Like the dog 's born er after , before that , and before that , and before that and it showed you all the owners and everything , right ? |
| 5 | And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er |
| 6 | I ran for my life , but it followed me all the way home . ’ |
| 7 | I was told not to push then , and I saw the midwife go to cut the cord , and finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about . |
| 8 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 9 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 10 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |
| 11 | It took them half an hour to get the fire under control , and the building , two tractors and a number of farm implements were severely damaged . |
| 12 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 13 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 14 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 15 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
| 16 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 17 | When I was walking past the marsh one , one night , when I was on my way back from school I heard a rus rustling noise behind a bu bush , when I went up the , went up first to the bush a big dragon-like thing jumped out from behind the bush , it gave me such a fright I nearly fainted . |