Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , as usual , except- ’ She stopped and she turned to look at him , but she could n't make out his face in the darkness of the wood , so it gave her the courage to say , ‘ I 'm worried , Charlie . |
| 2 | Especially if it gave me the credibility to help a friend in need . |
| 3 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 4 | Frank and unremorseful about his homosexuality , he never fully resolved his attitude towards it , in part because it denied him the family he would have liked to have had . |
| 5 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 6 | They joined in our events for young women , and devoured our publications , because it gave them the springboard for taking action themselves . |
| 7 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 8 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 9 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 10 | Even though it cost us the life of a very good agent . ’ |
| 11 | entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time . |
| 12 | On the lower rung of legal self-determination the grant of customary franchises might be in a lord 's interests , for it could secure his revenues in perpetuity , even as it barred him the chance of arbitrary exaction ; besides , an early concession might prevent more explosive demands later . |
| 13 | For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ . |