Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 2 | It made its own crazy sense . |
| 3 | She liked the cottage as much as he did , it cast its own peculiar spell , but it was n't something out of Grimm . |
| 4 | For one crazy , idiotic moment , Leith thought Naylor might have disposed of Sebastian 's deerstalker because it caused him some small degree of jealousy to see another man 's hat in her home . |
| 5 | Just as the post-war economic depression set in , so it signalled its own personal tragedy for the Titford family : on 25 February 1816 , Ben the Outrider died , aged barely 29 . |
| 6 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 7 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 8 | Sean admits it was a tough time and it taught her some hard lessons . |
| 9 | But South America has its own great grasslands , and it evolved its own separate groups of large herbivores to exploit the resource . |
| 10 | In 1990 , it established its own Japanese office in Tokyo and began offering technical support on a local basis . |
| 11 | He said it contained his own private cargo and that he wanted to unload it himself . |
| 12 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 13 | It took him another five minutes to get across the fact that no , he was not a doctor but yes , he was a friend , a very good friend . |
| 14 | It took him several long moments to work out where ground was , where sky was , and where he was . |
| 15 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 16 | I argued , I fought , but he wanted to believe that happiness was impossible ; it gave him some strange consolation . |
| 17 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 18 | This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service . |
| 19 | Like any vast industrial complex , it had its own substantial railway sidings to move and accept train loads of iron ore and to ship the completed products en route to its customers worldwide . |
| 20 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 21 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 22 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 23 | It had its own permanent staff ; hence user — staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups . |
| 24 | It had its own unique ways of safeguarding objects in its care , and its own ways of keeping the galaxy 's criminal predators at bay . |