Example sentences of "it [vb past] i [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It surprised me that ! |
| 7 | I ran for my life , but it followed me all the way home . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 12 | It took me all day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Because it took me such a long time to find you . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 18 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |
| 19 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 20 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 21 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 22 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 23 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 24 | It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business . |
| 25 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 26 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 27 | It took me most of a whole day , sir . ’ |
| 28 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 29 | This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service . |
| 30 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |