Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 2 | All of Brundle 's simple rules and runes had left the complacent head which believed it knew it all anyway . |
| 3 | but with her being ill it , she says it gave him another sense of duty that |
| 4 | I did n't say anything , though the way he had said it made it clear he expected some comment . |
| 5 | Yes , mm , you re-potting it did it some good |
| 6 | This was true , in a way , and his saying it made me sympathetic and tearful , but on the other hand I knew that if I had told him , his attitude would not have been as indulgent as he was pretending now . |
| 7 | Oh oh yes yes the union did erm get that er sorted out you know , and er and then when the buses began to run it made it easier for those worked in Willenhall and er and it just be about threepence of fourpence in our money go there then , but erm and then the hours were altered you see , eight o'clock and finish at six o'clock and er and then it used to be seven to seven you see . |
| 8 | Lost most people with a powerful central theme to their life , Gedge had to adopt an obstinate approach as The Wedding Present became successful and during their two-year relationship , Debbie Kaye felt it made him self-centred . |
| 9 | She knew it kept her awake these hot nights , restless with a deep and hard yearning that never eased , never went away . |
| 10 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 11 | Any other things that made it made it difficult for you to read ? |
| 12 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 13 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 14 | It just , I think it , I think it affected us last week so erm cos the , the Friday night was well down . |
| 15 | And I think it did me good . ’ |
| 16 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
| 17 | We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam |
| 18 | I am not ashamed to say it brought me close to tears . |
| 19 | Fred Rodgers said it took him 30 minutes to travel half-a-mile this morning . |
| 20 | He said it made him happy . |
| 21 | Even the way he said it made me mad ; so calm about it . |
| 22 | He said it made you sick to look at it . |
| 23 | ‘ The Alderman who funded it wanted it all called after Sherwood folk . |