Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [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 | The mist was the trouble — it shrouded everything half a dozen yards away . |
| 4 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 5 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 6 | It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head . |
| 7 | It made its own crazy sense . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It made them both giggle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 12 | It made it all worthwhile . |
| 13 | It probably slowed down the whole process a bit , but it made it all much safer . ’ |
| 14 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 15 | It made us all behave like lunatics but no one except me seems to want to forget it . |
| 16 | The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow . |
| 17 | Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’ |
| 18 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 19 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 20 | Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play . |
| 21 | The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot . |
| 22 | Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money . |
| 23 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money . |
| 27 | She liked the cottage as much as he did , it cast its own peculiar spell , but it was n't something out of Grimm . |
| 28 | The Guinness takeover of Distillers is studied , not just as an example of a keenly contested takeover , but also as it demonstrated what many saw as the unacceptable sides of takeover activity and the City of London . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |