Example sentences of "it [vb past] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
2 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
3 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
4 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
5 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
6 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
7 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
8 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
9 | It caused me little inconvenience and even less pain and I was still able to manoeuvre myself into reasonable position and qualify for the final . |
10 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
11 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
12 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
13 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
14 | It took me all day . |
15 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
16 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
17 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
18 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
19 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
22 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
23 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
24 | it took me five times |
25 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
26 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
27 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
28 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
29 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
30 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |