Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] a [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 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 5 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |