Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it eventually went it a high court you remember . |
| 2 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 3 | It only took us a few seconds to realize the mistake but by then twenty-eight kids and three of the missionaries were either dead or dying . |
| 4 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 5 | ‘ It obviously gave me a very good grounding and without it , I would n't be where I am today . |
| 6 | It just took us a long time . ’ |
| 7 | I like to listen to the news , but yesterday it just gave me a headache . |
| 8 | It just gave me an excuse to come charging up here . ’ |
| 9 | It just gave them an excuse to do what they wanted in the name of the Devil . |
| 10 | Oh it just gave us a nice thing saying I 've fixed your mouse , thank you very much . |
| 11 | I , I forgotten that it was Justine , I , it just threw me a bit that erm , erm , Nick asked me to let you know that we were here and that we 'd received the chairs . |
| 12 | It still niggled me a bit that he could return to a centrally heated and solidly built barrack block , while the girls shivered in their huts . |
| 13 | It still surprised him a little that his aunt had finally bought a television set . |
| 14 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |
| 15 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 16 | It always surprised him a little that it was possible to fix the attention on the room itself , its furniture and objects , even before the bodies had been packaged and taken away , as if in their fixed and silent decrepitude they had for a moment become part of the room 's artefacts , as significant as any other physical clue , no more and no less . |
| 17 | It also taught him the importance of training . |
| 18 | It also took them an hour to assemble in the darkness and likewise they discovered that most of their supply containers were missing . |
| 19 | It also took her a step nearer to Douglas Fairbanks , a former student of a mining school who had strong views of his own on how the movies should depict American society . |
| 20 | If luck was kind to Alan Rough it also paid him a monstrous disservice . |
| 21 | It also did me a world of good , for I had to study the basic faith , teaching and life and express it in as simple words as possible . |
| 22 | It also gave them an additional incentive in their efforts to keep the peace between Plantagenets and Capetians , for they stood to lose lands and revenues through confiscation in time of war . |
| 23 | This not only altered the strategic military balance in favour of the rebels , it also gave them an important psychological boost . |
| 24 | It also gave him the excuse for being able to claim a whole series of ‘ expenditures ’ on his taxation forms , such as furnishings , heating , materials and travel . |
| 25 | I was impressed and it also gave me a lot of momentum for the album . |
| 26 | And it also gave me a hit , which I never expected . ’ |
| 27 | It also gave us a taste of its international coproduction In search of paradise , starting it on Easter Monday , continuing it on the Tuesday , and on the Friday . |
| 28 | Although the enclosure movement in all these forms was the last great revolution in the English landscape , radically changing much of the countryside as it took place , it also gave us a landscape which is aesthetically much more pleasing to most people . |
| 29 | ‘ It also gave us the seven seats we needed . ’ |
| 30 | It also gave us the belief , probably misguided , that there are two fundamental learning processes : classical and instrumental conditioning . |