Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I noticed Nick Faldo was pulling a trolley and it made me curious . |
2 | Davide wanted to burst out , ‘ You hypocrite , stop making up to my sisters and playing the shining knight , I saw you go to communion today , and it made me sick . |
3 | It was the only occasion I saw inside and it made me hungry to go again . |
4 | Then when I reached the Mess , you letter was waiting for me , and it made me happy and sad at once , and I just HAD to write you a note , though I ca n't post it tonight . |
5 | She told Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield he became depressed through being out of work and it made him irritable and upset . |
6 | ‘ So I was upset I said I did n't want to , I was crying and it made him madder . ’ |
7 | Now he was , and it made him belligerent . |
8 | This was happening to him , and it made him afraid . |
9 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
10 | And it made it ten times worse . |
11 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
12 | He would do it everywhere and it drove me insane . |
13 | Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway . |
14 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
15 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
16 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
17 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
18 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
19 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
20 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
21 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
22 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
23 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
24 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
25 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
26 | Well I studied an art class in the school and it took me twenty five minutes to walk from my house . |
27 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
28 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
29 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |
30 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |