Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 2 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 3 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 4 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 5 | But it stopped it like that , it was only just smouldering you know . |
| 6 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 7 | It smothered him like dense mist . |
| 8 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 9 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 10 | It drove him in 1950 to establish a committee to help people in need . |
| 11 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 12 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 13 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 14 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 15 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 16 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 17 | Yeah , it knocked me for six |
| 18 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 19 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 20 | Last night we had a phone call , oh it frightened me at first actually , I answered the phone |
| 21 | It engulfed her in successive waves , each one stronger than the last , and then it was one long pain , tearing at her guts . |
| 22 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 24 | It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down . |
| 25 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 26 | And it worried me to that extent that I almost went without your okay and rang up Terry and said , please fix those blinds , because we have got blinds which cost almost two hundred pounds or something and or a hundred and nineteen pounds , and it seems they ca n't fix them . |
| 27 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 28 | It took me to twenty to stand into a half crouch and reach up for the bolt . |
| 29 | It took me by complete surprise . |
| 30 | It took her from 25 February to 30 June to save a shilling , but once she had accomplished that she was content that she could manage and ‘ never let it trouble me again ’ . |