Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 2 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It reminded him of that moment years before when she had drawn and aimed the bow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It reminded me of those rooms they put guests in in horror movies — the sort where you know something horrible 's going to happen in the middle of the night . |
| 12 | It reminded her of another time . |
| 13 | She enjoyed his obvious fascination with it and it reminded her of another suggestion she wanted to make to him . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 16 | 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 . |