Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through . |
| 2 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 3 | It made him all the more determined to do something . |
| 4 | It made her more a person and less a policewoman . |
| 5 | That I could put no name to it made it all the more tantalizing , like a song when only the tune remains and the words are lost by time . |
| 6 | Ace took the note and read it , finding that it told her where the Doctor and Howard had gone . |
| 7 | When I lost my first serve in the first set , it threw me off a bit . |
| 8 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 9 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 10 | And er we were coming out of We were getting the tub out an and er me brother was at the front end of th It went off the rails and er as he pushed it back , I was at the back and it jammed me again the face , and broke this collar bone . |
| 11 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 12 | ‘ Not bad I s'pose , but it brought you down a bit . ’ |
| 13 | But like , he even said it , he said to me when I was drunk and I , and it pissed me off a little bit actually cos like , he goes to me you know like I I was saying about it and he goes erm well she was the one who wanted it all casual and everything , and I said oh yeah . |
| 14 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 15 | It hurt her all the more and she slumped to her knee . |
| 16 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 17 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 18 | It took me quite a while to rebuild my confidence . |
| 19 | It took me quite a few years to realize that my timing was terrible — the repercussions of being born then were enormous . |
| 20 | It took me quite a long time to get over it . |
| 21 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 22 | To tell the truth , it took me quite a while to realize that the pitiable chirruping I heard all about me was , in fact , human speech . |
| 23 | It took me quite a long time . |
| 24 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 25 | Chairman , if they are recorded all later , it took me quite a long time to discover them , could we have , abbreviations just written out , it makes it very difficult for me to , I 'm not used , I mean , I 'm |
| 26 | It took me quite a while to cope with the shock . ’ |
| 27 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 28 | It took her quite a long time to understand what had occurred and what she had done wrong . |
| 29 | Well , erm , of course it took them quite a while that the people |
| 30 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |