Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concerned him the more to see that Titch , also , appeared to have no eyes for anything but the Wheel . |
| 2 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |
| 3 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 4 | United put profits before results last season and it cost them the Championship . |
| 5 | It cost him the tournament . |
| 6 | It cost him the land he had so longed to enter . |
| 7 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 8 | Even though it cost us the life of a very good agent . ’ |
| 9 | entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time . |
| 10 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 11 | It told me the figures in east London . |
| 12 | Well it seemed it the bairn 's been in . |
| 13 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |
| 14 | It taught me the lesson that you should never do something because you feel you 've got to . |
| 15 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 16 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 17 | It offered him the see of Durham . |
| 18 | It took me the rest of the day to clean up . |
| 19 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 20 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 21 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 22 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |
| 23 | It took us the rest of the day to struggle back to our last bivouac , I remembered how Stephen Venables had dropped his rucksack , our stove and tent poles at 23,000 feet on Rimo 1 , and knew how the poor fellow felt : devastated . |
| 24 | It saved him the effort . |
| 25 | It gave her the confidence to go out alone , even though walking was still difficult . |
| 26 | And the certainty of it gave her the strength to smile . |
| 27 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |
| 28 | And it gave her the security of knowing there was someone she could talk to , someone she could count on . |
| 29 | It gave her the chance to be with Marguerite , though , and they talked quite easily as they moved around the kitchen . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , as usual , except- ’ She stopped and she turned to look at him , but she could n't make out his face in the darkness of the wood , so it gave her the courage to say , ‘ I 'm worried , Charlie . |