Example sentences of "it [vb past] me a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Katherine , I am glad we had that little talk before dinner , even if it made me a trifle nervous . |
| 2 | And so that , it made me a tougher than I should have been . |
| 3 | It made me a little uneasy . |
| 4 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 5 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No I bloody ent , ’ Yanto laughed , ‘ it cost me a hundred and fifty , and my next salmon . |
| 7 | It cost me a two-stroke penalty and £3,500 . |
| 8 | It cost me a lot extra to have it shipped over but it 's worth every penny . ’ |
| 9 | It was taken off me at Widnes , with Jonathan Davies doing most of the tactical kicking , and I 've been told it cost me a Great Britain tour chance . |
| 10 | ‘ It cost me a fortune — but I did n't think I could bear to see you again . |
| 11 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 12 | Yeah for the sake of what , it cost me a fiver , probably a tenner these days , speculate to accumulate |
| 13 | But that basket were only half full and it cost me a quid for what were in the basket . |
| 14 | Based on the idea of a cliche , an often repeated phrase is n't it oh it cost me an arm and a leg , erm which is n't meant to be taken literally . |
| 15 | When you say it cost me an arm and a leg , you 're thinking in word pictures if you like it 's a metaphor and er in the in the picture it 's by the er Long John by the Long John Silver figure having not only one leg , but also one arm as well . |
| 16 | In a funny way , it helped me a lot to find that there were people worse off than me and to learn through the callers that there were a lot of different ways of being strong . |
| 17 | It taught me a lesson about drinking and driving that I 'll never forget . ’ |
| 18 | Still , it taught me a thing or two . |
| 19 | ‘ I was a troubleshooter : it taught me a lot about dealing with people . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It taught me a lot about life , about being self-sufficient , and , ’ his voice hardened , ‘ about people . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It taught me a harsh lesson . |
| 22 | ‘ It brought me a lot of luck and I hope it brings her just as much . ’ |
| 23 | As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this . |
| 24 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 25 | It took me a few months to realise that my life was changed completely . |
| 26 | ‘ It took me a while to realise that of course I am not really opening a window : something is zooming forward and appearing out of nothing . |
| 27 | It took me a while to believe those three things utterly and another while to risk acting on the belief . |
| 28 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 29 | It took me a devil of a time to find it I can tell you . |
| 30 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |