Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has caused me a great deal of work , but it has resulted in an extraordinary discovery , one that I hope may prove satisfactory to you all . ’ |
| 2 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 3 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 4 | It has made him a millionaire but 32-year-old Chris would sell it all tomorrow if he could find a buyer . |
| 5 | He was paid £1,600 for his part in producing a football video nasty and it has cost him a record £20,000 fine . |
| 6 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
| 7 | There is very little actual fish catching to report this month , so with things being slow it has given me a chance to read up on fish nutrition , something I have a reasonable knowledge of due to once working in one of the then leading fish culture units at Aston University . |
| 8 | Now I 've had a few in succession , it has given me a lot more confidence . |
| 9 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 10 | ‘ It has given her a head start over everyone else and trained her in the art of being able to look after herself . |
| 11 | and if I did n't say it strong enough , as Angela 's done , it has given us a real basis to work on Don and it is appreciated . |
| 12 | Well we 've been very concerned to try and develop our policies and services and we find this report very helpful because it has given us a very clear lead as to the sort of things which are necessary , and in many ways it 's supporting the ideas which we 've had . |
| 13 | Mentally it has done him a lot of damage . ’ |
| 14 | This scientific enthusiasm was invaluable during his three years as President of the Royal Geographical Society and it has earned him a place on the National Environmental Research Council . |
| 15 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 16 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
| 17 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 18 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 19 | " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations . |
| 20 | It had given me a world of wonder and time to draw it all in . |
| 21 | He had headaches , toothache , his anxiety about the coming week and how he would cope with it had given him a fever . |
| 22 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 23 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 24 | It had given her a sense of power that was almost ethereal . |
| 25 | It had made me a coward as well as a lecher . |
| 26 | They thought it was best to know what you were up against , but Preston was n't sure it had done them a lot of good in the long run . |
| 27 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 28 | It had taken her a long time to get over that . |
| 29 | It had taken them a while to find the taxi-driver . |
| 30 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |