Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 so it made it easy .
2 This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem .
3 It consistently indulged in folies de grandeur — and somehow it made them believable .
4 Yet somehow it brought him more explaining to do .
5 More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness .
6 Well it made him drowsy for one thing , it kept knocking him out .
7 We ended up buying a cheap gas picnic stove for which cartridges were sold everywhere — and luckily it did us proud .
8 Then we shot a 68 in the second round , easily the best round , but most importantly it put us nine strokes ahead of Nicklaus .
9 Then it took me four or five days to be able to walk with a stick .
10 West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another .
11 Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money .
12 But then it cost them sixteen thousand did n't it ?
13 THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing .
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