Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 2 | It guarantees YOU a lump sum — either on your 65th birthday or after ten years , whichever is later . |
| 3 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 4 | Did it throw you a bit did it ? |
| 5 | With its creation and destruction of individuals , it offers us a presentiment of the primordial unity that lies behind the world of phenomena . |
| 6 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 7 | ‘ Katherine , I am glad we had that little talk before dinner , even if it made me a trifle nervous . |
| 8 | Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away . |
| 9 | I am saying this to show you the other side of Basil — this firmness — this absolute integrity — if you believe in a thing lie would say , even if it made him a bit unpopular , which I think is marvellous . |
| 10 | It made her a bit uncomfortable . |
| 11 | If truth were told , it made her a lot more than simply afraid , but telling him that would simply add to his ammunition . |
| 12 | It made it a weekend marriage , but it seemed to work . |
| 13 | If Hong Kong ever does achieve democracy , it will owe Mr Lee a monument : for the time being , it owes him a holiday . |
| 14 | England is mine , It owes me a living ’ . |
| 15 | It cost them a fortune in both cases . |
| 16 | it cost them a bomb that did |
| 17 | ‘ It cost me a fortune — but I did n't think I could bear to see you again . |
| 18 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 19 | Yeah for the sake of what , it cost me a fiver , probably a tenner these days , speculate to accumulate |
| 20 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 21 | It cost me a lot extra to have it shipped over but it 's worth every penny . ’ |
| 22 | And it cost him a share of the halfway lead in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 23 | On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning . |
| 24 | But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure . |
| 25 | She said you 'd be the I mean , and family when Wendy and that go and er she they had to with a la carte , oh it cost her a bomb ! |
| 26 | Tuathal , they can eat , but serve the ale as if every pint of it cost you a toenail . |
| 27 | It cost us a fortune in . |
| 28 | And it cost us a bomb ! |
| 29 | It cost us a lot to close it , but we are very pleased we did . |
| 30 | In a funny way , it helped me a lot to find that there were people worse off than me and to learn through the callers that there were a lot of different ways of being strong . |