Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Even if it costs us a few hundred quid , it 's been worth it . |
| 62 | and it costs us a bloody bomb ! |
| 63 | 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 . |
| 64 | And of course , as I say , it costs us the earth . |
| 65 | I mean if you bank every day it costs you a fortune . |
| 66 | If you 've got a Labour or S L D Council , it costs you a lot more money . |
| 67 | Do n't be afraid of altitude or power , it buys you a very useful commodity — time . |
| 68 | It affords him a wonderfully mellow role as a dying man reunited with his family in his beloved south of France in the last weeks of his life . |
| 69 | Although Landry makes clear that the shoe does not always fit , this sort of approach , as suggested above , is dangerous in that it shapes what a scholar is willing to see . |
| 70 | And having my kind of build , being quite big and wearing miniskirts , I know that sometimes it gets me the wrong kind of attention from boys only interested in physical relationships . |
| 71 | When I wake up , I know summat 's up when I open my eyes and see it 's all bright , but it takes me a minute to remember where I am . |
| 72 | It takes me a little time to get calm again . |
| 73 | It takes me a bit to remember where I am . |
| 74 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 75 | It takes me a while to get there . |
| 76 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 77 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 78 | Er , it takes me an hour to get there , if I 'm lucky now at roadworks and charging time in one day , is like an hour to patch , then you 're out on to the patch , in between appointments running about because Derby 's quite a big area , er , again if you 've got to cover an appointment in Matlock and you 're in Derby in the morning you 're talking a good forty five minute run to get there . |
| 79 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 80 | I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers |
| 81 | It takes him a moment to regain his composure . |
| 82 | It takes him a minute to realize what it is . |
| 83 | If you 're buying them as young plants which are probably a foot fifteen inches high then it takes them a couple of years to get the roots established . |
| 84 | This this this is because the the Department of the Environment lost the paperwork for a year erm because apparently the Home Office are un incapable of reading documents unless they 're in order , and they take them in order and it takes them a year to read them . |
| 85 | She said : ‘ It takes us a year to save up and we try to put away £25 each every month . |
| 86 | Rather it takes us a step away from understanding him . |
| 87 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 88 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 89 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 90 | And if it takes you a matter of seconds , you really need to address your security . |