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Example sentences of "it [verb] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	She is too afraid of her reaction : ‘ To this day , it drives me crazy listening to her various hypotheses , the way religion and superstition all merge with her own beliefs .
2	It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’
3	I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty .
4	The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ?
5	And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here .
6	Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four .
7	It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees .
8	It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ?
12	Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid .
13	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 .
14	‘ It takes me two hours to write a song .
15	Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour .
16	I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly .
17	It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again .
18	‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’
19	Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid .
20	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 .
21	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 ) .
22	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 .
23	It took me all day .
24	It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull .
25	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 .
26	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 .
27	It took me two minutes to decide .
28	I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’
29	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 .
30	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 . ’