Example sentences of "that it [verb] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 2 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 3 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 6 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 7 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 8 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 9 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 10 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 11 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 12 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 13 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 14 | I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life . |
| 15 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 16 | She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway . |
| 17 | His main diversion was music , which ‘ did relieve his drooping spirits , compose his distracted thoughts and raised his weary soul so far above the earth , that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven ’ . |
| 18 | Erm it 's just that it throws you a bit if you 've learnt them that way . |
| 19 | Frankly , the general tone of your question is so selfish that it makes me a bit dubious about the prospects of your marriage . |
| 20 | Yeah it it means that you can point out that it makes it a lot simpler for someone to just pop over for a night and crash out on the floor . |
| 21 | You have the blood of the Wolves of Tara and there is no question but that it makes you a Wolfprince . ’ |