Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 2 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 3 | It smothered him like dense mist . |
| 4 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 5 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 6 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 7 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 8 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 9 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 10 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 12 | It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down . |
| 13 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 14 | And it worried me to that extent that I almost went without your okay and rang up Terry and said , please fix those blinds , because we have got blinds which cost almost two hundred pounds or something and or a hundred and nineteen pounds , and it seems they ca n't fix them . |
| 15 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 16 | It took me by complete surprise . |
| 17 | It lead them to this house on Magdalen Road in Oxford … where law graduate Georgia Griffiths was living with her sister and two other girls . |
| 18 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 19 | Strange because it reminded him of other bedroom partings : sheets tangled , sweat cooling , confusion and self-reproach keeping glances at bay . |
| 20 | It reminded him of that moment years before when she had drawn and aimed the bow . |
| 21 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
| 22 | Oddly , instead of reminding me of Bill , it reminded me of Old Red . |
| 23 | It reminded her of another time . |
| 24 | She enjoyed his obvious fascination with it and it reminded her of another suggestion she wanted to make to him . |
| 25 | And when the old chap approached Shirley outside London nightspot Tramp — of course — it reminded her of another line from that old song of hers : ‘ Hey big spender , spend a little time with me . ’ |
| 26 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 27 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 28 | It struck me with some foreboding because I feel that ‘ lively discussion ’ is a code word for argument and I do n't regard high-pitched argument as the best means of reaching decisions . |
| 29 | It stood her in good stead when it came to the areas of change which are always necessary in an organisation approaching its centenary . |
| 30 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |