Example sentences of "[adv] of it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breakdown of a laminar jet usually starts quite close to the orifice , where the velocity profile still depends on the details of orifice geometry and the flow upstream of it . |
| 2 | I nearly told him Coney Island was also known as Sodom by the Sea , but thought better of it . |
| 3 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 4 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 5 | Her husband considered pushing the dog on to the floor , thought better of it , and went sulkily off to bed . |
| 6 | For a moment he was tempted to wake her up and confess but thought better of it . |
| 7 | ‘ You take it , boy , before they think better of it . ’ |
| 8 | Yet when his campaign train reached McCarthy 's state of Wisconsin , where he planned to speak in defence of his old chief , he thought better of it and let that guy from the gutter stay on the train . |
| 9 | She half turned but thought better of it . |
| 10 | The bulldog twitched and sniffed the air , started to rise but thought better of it and flopped down with her head on her paws . |
| 11 | Rose was about to protest , but thought better of it . |
| 12 | She thought better of it , and held back . |
| 13 | She seemed about to launch herself into a speech but then thought better of it . |
| 14 | Then he thought better of it . |
| 15 | She apparently thought better of it , but her face started to crumple as if she was going to cry . |
| 16 | But they thought better of it . |
| 17 | She gulped at the whisky , then thought better of it . |
| 18 | Short was about to say something about Frank Connor , but thought better of it . |
| 19 | For a moment , he considered letting Brompton-Smiley use the Rolls to get home , but then he thought better of it . |
| 20 | For a moment , Kelly considered telling him about the dance , but then she thought better of it . |
| 21 | The first race was run by local lads — miners from the surrounding pits — but not including Amos and Fred who must have thought better of it ! |
| 22 | I thought better of it . |
| 23 | Now I was talking to Dad I wanted to tell him about how Mum and I had found Granny and what wicked things Mum had done , but I knew Mum 's eyes were on me so I thought better of it . |
| 24 | She was dying to ask Mrs MacDonald what she would be wearing , and then thought better of it . |
| 25 | He could have forced the window in time , anyone could , but he seemed suddenly to think better of it . |
| 26 | Twice his quarry threw him backward glances , and on the second occasion seemed to slow his pace , as if he might stop and attempt a truce , but then thought better of it and put on an extra turn of speed . |
| 27 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |
| 28 | She opened her mouth to speak , thought better of it , then slumped back angrily on the sofa and folded her arms across her chest . |
| 29 | He had already considered returning to London in the closing stages of the war , but had thought better of it . |
| 30 | He half raised his arm to draw her attention , and thought better of it . |