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Example sentences of "it [verb] us [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	With its creation and destruction of individuals , it offers us a presentiment of the primordial unity that lies behind the world of phenomena .
2	It cost us a fortune in .
3	And it cost us a bomb !
4	It cost us a lot to close it , but we are very pleased we did .
5	Even though it cost us the life of a very good agent . ’
6	entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time .
7	It caused us a lot of extra work , major changes and more travel to get it right for the second larger meeting .
8	It allows us the conclusion that has just been contemplated : that the difference between causal items and their effects has its basis not only in the consideration that causal circumstances fix uniquely the occurrence of their effects , but also in the consideration that causal circumstances precede their effects .
9	Gloriana is a pageant opera , but it shows us the heartbreak behind the painted progress .
10	It shows us the power of cumulative selection to generate an almost endless variety of quasi-biological form , but it uses artificial selection , not natural selection .
11	And of course , as I say , it costs us the earth .
12	She said : ‘ It takes us a year to save up and we try to put away £25 each every month .
13	The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day .
14	Rather it takes us a step away from understanding him .
15	Still , it sobered us a bit , and after we had taken several more shots we decided that we needed some sleep , to try to get our minds back in gear .
16	" It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours .
17	Ready for the op on the Saturday , and Friday I st started to sneeze , they took me temperature , I 'd got a cold , between , it took us a fortnight and and , for the operation to come through it , common cold .
18	It took us a day to pick two buckets of tiny bits of coal .
19	It took us a day and a half to come , riding fast .
20	While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition .
21	One day it took us a day and a half to get it back again .
22	There was a special unit set up here , Animal Rights National Index , but these idiots had tight security , a good cut-off cell system , and it took us a hell of a long time to open the can .
23	It took us the rest of the day to struggle back to our last bivouac , I remembered how Stephen Venables had dropped his rucksack , our stove and tent poles at 23,000 feet on Rimo 1 , and knew how the poor fellow felt : devastated .
24	Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home .
25	And it earned us a lull , that was all . ’
26	It gave us a chance to see what he was like as a person , because normally in an interview you 've got thirty to forty-five minutes in which to make a decision about a person.That can be very difficult .
27	It gave us a bit of a giggle in the office , but I have to say it 's not the sort of thing that we would show to the public .
28	It gave us a lift at just the right time .
29	It gave us a break from constant travel , enabled William to get some work done and Ned to find a job , and gave us the chance to get to know one place really well , while enjoying the company of old friends and making new ones .
30	Therefore it gave us an idea what it was like in the working world .