Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made Brandywell a no-go area for visiting teams and marked the beginning of the end for Derry City 's reign in the Irish League . |
| 2 | It made Lorraine a French province . |
| 3 | It took Alistair a little while to explain who he was . |
| 4 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 5 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 6 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |
| 7 | It gave Oscar a perverse joy to sow these doubts . |
| 8 | It gave Marion a squashy feeling in her stomach . |