Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does come nice after Christmas , Christmas it got him all out of plonk |
| 2 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 3 | It made them all laugh when Peter said that come to that , what he did with him was against the law since Jay was not yet twenty-one . |
| 4 | It made them both giggle . |
| 5 | Carrie stood knee deep in the dry , sweet-smelling hay and helped Albert take Frederick 's huge forkfuls that were so heavy , sometimes , it made them both stagger . |
| 6 | It made it all worthwhile . |
| 7 | It probably slowed down the whole process a bit , but it made it all much safer . ’ |
| 8 | It made us all behave like lunatics but no one except me seems to want to forget it . |
| 9 | Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money . |
| 10 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 11 | From Henry James , The Pupil The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated : it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms , to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and , as it were , of the aristocracy ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all . |
| 13 | I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money . |
| 14 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 15 | ‘ But because we were so bad it woke us all up . |
| 16 | It amazed him such a slip of a girl could have such passion in her , and by then he had noticed the perfect contours of her body which neither the black dress nor the prim white apron could conceal . |
| 17 | For one crazy , idiotic moment , Leith thought Naylor might have disposed of Sebastian 's deerstalker because it caused him some small degree of jealousy to see another man 's hat in her home . |
| 18 | It caused me little inconvenience and even less pain and I was still able to manoeuvre myself into reasonable position and qualify for the final . |
| 19 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 20 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 21 | ‘ The enormity [ sic ] of it scared us both . |
| 22 | There was never any nastiness between Lee and Tony , but it fired them both up ; they were both determined to beat the other . |
| 23 | Anything that was n't like that , though , Dave would handle all the rhythms and I 'm really glad that we did that this time because it allowed us each to focus in on what we were doing — me on my solos and Dave on the rhythms . |
| 24 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
| 25 | And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er |
| 26 | Like the dog 's born er after , before that , and before that , and before that and it showed you all the owners and everything , right ? |
| 27 | And nodding his head in agreement with that , Mr Wolski took his broom and went off down the path away from the Cages , for it saddened him more and more to see the eagles there . |
| 28 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 29 | It taught her that ‘ life is what you make it . ’ |
| 30 | Sean admits it was a tough time and it taught her some hard lessons . |