Example sentences of "it [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever , it got him a long , heartfelt , high-pitched ‘ Wooooooooooooooo ’ from about 20,000 people who 'd got little else to wooo about . |
| 2 | It concerned him the more to see that Titch , also , appeared to have no eyes for anything but the Wheel . |
| 3 | And it concerned him an awful lot and it it it irritated him and frustrated him and I think he set his sights on trying to do something about it in his his way . |
| 4 | As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole . |
| 5 | As Gloucester 's power grew , it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole . |
| 6 | A new constraint came into his tone when he spoke of ‘ them ’ ; it cost him a giant effort now , as well as a convulsion of remembering pain , to look back towards Aber . |
| 7 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 8 | The maverick maestro , who prefers life in scruffy clothes , was lent the gold-trimmed gown by Bath University when it awarded him an honorary degree for musical ability in June last year . |
| 9 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 10 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's very sharp , and it took him a good while to accustom himself to the flowers , the boards , the judge 's car , or the judge 's box and all the rest of it . |
| 12 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |
| 13 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 14 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 15 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 16 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 17 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 18 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 19 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |
| 20 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 21 | It gave him a ghastly feeling of déjà vu . ’ |
| 22 | It gave him a good feeling , it was satisfying , just to think as he walked up the stairs , those floors are mine , this carved wood , these moulded ceilings . |
| 23 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 24 | It gave him a rakish , devil-may-care look completely at variance with his austere manner of recent days . |
| 25 | But secretly he loved the idea , and it gave him a great kick to tell his friends and business acquaintances that he was supporting his son on the amateur golf circuit . |
| 26 | He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . |
| 27 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 28 | Reckoned it gave him a psychological advantage . ’ |
| 29 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 30 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |