Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 2 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 3 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 4 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 5 | It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head . |
| 6 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 7 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 8 | It made her golden shoulders quiver . |
| 9 | The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel . |
| 10 | And it made it ten times worse . |
| 11 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 12 | She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds ! |
| 13 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 14 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 15 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 16 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It cost him two marriages . |
| 19 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 20 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 21 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 22 | We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam |
| 23 | BIRMINGHAM manager Terry Cooper yesterday blasted live television coverage and said : ‘ It cost us 5,000 fans . ’ |
| 24 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 25 | ‘ We were relying on him and Steve McManaman to attack them down the flanks , and when Mark dropped out it reduced our attacking options . ’ |
| 26 | One theatre management which gave concessionary tickets , for instance , had never thought about the problems it caused its older customers by refusing advance booking and forcing them to queue for standby tickets . |
| 27 | We used to count as it played its seven colours |
| 28 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 29 | It affected his own supplies , as well as the carriage of news , and forced him to make secondary plans , among other things , for the sale of his new sugar crop . |
| 30 | Like tourists who visit for the first time , it seemed our resident rabbits sensed the tranquil harmony that is the essence of this tiny unspoilt paradise in the Mediterranean . |