Example sentences of "it [vb past] i [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took me all day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 9 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 10 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 11 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 12 | It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business . |
| 13 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 14 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 15 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 16 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 17 | It gave me some insight into the upgraded version , but no details . |
| 18 | ‘ It gave me some advice about dealing with problems which might arise . ’ |
| 19 | It gave me free education , a home and free medical care . ’ |
| 20 | It gave me enough impetus to finish the exit , though I dare say he , like me , felt only marginally warmer for being on land . |
| 21 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 22 | It struck me this mouse would be very attractive to portable users , but the generous serial lead to the receiver unit is a bit inconvenient for this.One thing I noticed straight away compared with my A4 Tech Microsoft Mouse clone was that it was necessary to reduce the movement sensitivity of my Windows mouse driver . |