Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It somewhat shook me rigid , and through my colleague , Peggy who received a gold award this week , we got some of those leaflets , that were sent to us , and Peggy wrote a letter , around to the workplaces in Grimsby and Cleethorpes , and as a role , as trade union liaison officer with Grimsby C L P , she sent it to the workplaces within Grimsby . |
| 2 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 3 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 4 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 5 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 6 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 7 | But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu . |
| 8 | It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job . |
| 9 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 10 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 11 | It so happened her first shop , called The Body Shop , opened next door to an undertaker 's in Brighton . |
| 12 | He strove to keep his face from that wall as it inexorably pulled him closer . |
| 13 | Nobody likes to have their freedom taken away from them , but all the abuse and everything they threw at me — it just made me stronger each time . |
| 14 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 15 | And it just stopped me dead in my tracks . |
| 16 | In fact the professional golfers almost took a back seat , and it always afforded me some wry amusement when Ryder Cup golfers of repute were ignored by the spectators who were intent on getting the autograph of some star from a television soap opera . |
| 17 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 18 | She had a terrible temper , and it always made him double up when she swore at him and clenched her fists . |
| 19 | If it occasionally had Cnut in difficulties , it also offered him considerable opportunities , and it is no less generous to the historian , who is better informed upon it than any other aspect of Cnut 's rule . |
| 20 | But it also made him invaluable as an occasional centre-forward . |
| 21 | A sort of Celtic Spinal Tap for Teds , it also gave us seminal TV villain Eddie McClockerty , played by the god-like Richard Wilson . |
| 22 | When , generations after his death , theology rediscovered him , it also found it necessary to move beyond him . |
| 23 | But when I found you 'd run away from me again , it nearly sent me crazy . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then . |
| 25 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 26 | It it really made me furious . |
| 27 | But it really hit her this year , we felt quite disgruntled |
| 28 | Maybe it even did me good . |
| 29 | Forty per cent of those experiencing it occasionally found it disturbing . |
| 30 | But it never did it any good they never got to run their own economy . |