Example sentences of "it [verb] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 3 | but it knocks me all off then , I do n't feel , I feel tired but I 'm not tired when I go |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 8 | I said the thing is that I pay sixty pence for five well I said it costs me another sixty pence to come and change them ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It takes me all the strength I have left to open the door into Contracts . |
| 11 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 12 | It takes me another two hours to reach the top , which provides a view down into the crater which looks , from this height , like a small , almost perfectly oval park with artfully sited clumps of trees and lakes . |
| 13 | It takes me half an hour to get from my home in North London to Heathrow Airport via the M25 . |
| 14 | It takes me half an hour to kick you out of bed . |
| 15 | It surprised me that ! |
| 16 | I ran for my life , but it followed me all the way home . ’ |
| 17 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 18 | It is natural for mathematicians to be the first to study problem solving but it surprises me that other disciplines have been so slow . |
| 19 | Secondly having put up this message when I try to exit windows it tells me that 1-2-3 is still active but I can not find a way to deactivate it . |
| 20 | ‘ It bothers me that , as a designer , I take natural resources and turn them into something which will eventually be thrown away to become landfill . |
| 21 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 22 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 23 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 24 | It took me all day . |
| 25 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 26 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 27 | ‘ Because it took me such a long time to find you . ’ |
| 28 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 29 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 30 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |