Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 2 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 3 | Although the F B I thought this another delaying tactic , it helped persuade them that mass suicide was unlikely , and that it was therefore safe to force a conclusion . |
| 4 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 5 | Nationalism did not now overthrow orders , it seemed to make them stronger . |
| 6 | Yet the very study of mythology from a scientific attitude distanced modern man at the same time as it seemed to bring him closer . |
| 7 | It seemed to shake him more than she had anticipated . |
| 8 | If it chose to put it all outside the town centre , what then subsequently occurred in the town centre under I twelve would not be damaging its allocation against the structure plan policy outside the town centre . |
| 9 | Like , even if it meant writing them anonymous note , you know ! |
| 10 | But it did give him unique access to the Shah . |
| 11 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 12 | And I I er anyway it did make me ill , its it made me bleed . |
| 13 | However , the goal posts having been established , it did make it all much easier . |
| 14 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 15 | When Sophie praised a necklet of rubies that she was wearing , it appeared to give him great pleasure . |
| 16 | This gives a sort of impression that it wished to make it easier . |
| 17 | He had n't been hurt by it , probably not even insulted , but it had made him angry . |
| 18 | For a moment it had made him inclined to doubt the authenticity of the whole thing . |
| 19 | it had made it juddery , yes ? |
| 20 | It had amused her all the way through the heavy traffic , but now her thoughts went far away , back with Felipe . |
| 21 | I certainly felt it had done me good and now whenever I recall it , I smile . |
| 22 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 23 | It had stopped him dead , for a moment . |
| 24 | It had cost him all his money , but Conradin did not mind . |
| 25 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 26 | From his visit to the Burgers , Wycliffe had learned something about art , more about the art trade , and a good deal about Edwin Garland , but he wondered whether it had brought him any closer to establishing a motive for the murder of Francis . |
| 27 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 28 | She felt her contribution to the discussion had been negligible ; it had taken her all her patience just to keep her temper . |
| 29 | On a week 's package holiday at the time , the first break she had been able to afford since leaving drama school , it had taken her all of five minutes to make up her mind to stay . |
| 30 | It had taken me fifteen minutes . |