Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it did you a lot of good although |
| 2 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 3 | Once more it gave him a feeling of identity , but this time it was n't reassuring . |
| 4 | Coming home it took me a bit longer cos it was all that delay at the hill . |
| 5 | It 's a great shame that when we are presented with er a problem , when we 're out on site , we actually forget all these things and , and I think that probably it took you an hour or so yesterday to actually recognise , oh yes , I need this and I need this and I need this . |
| 6 | The constant streams of traffic flowing past it gave it the appearance of an ocean liner in a sea full of tiny fish . |
| 7 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 8 | Well it seemed it the bairn 's been in . |
| 9 | But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure . |
| 10 | ‘ When I got the sack , then it gave me the chance to paint really hard . |
| 11 | He heard , as I did , the faint threat in the cousinly concern , and at least it gave him an excuse for a face-saving exit . |
| 12 | The tea tasted horrible but at least it gave me the chance to have a little think . |
| 13 | Abruptly it proclaimed itself a tribe , featured all twenty-three staff , tribe members on the cover , reported on the growth of the yippies , America 's politicized hippies , and on plans by Sid Rawle 's Hyde Park Diggers to move to the country . |
| 14 | Electronic Mail ( E-mail ) is probably the least easy to configure under Mainlan , and indeed it took me a while to sort out exactly what was required to get a sensible system running . |
| 15 | Therefore it gave us an idea what it was like in the working world . |