Example sentences of "[det] of it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bit through the frond ; half of it fell onto the floor . |
| 2 | In 1982 the total stock of that investment in Africa was estimated at about $13 billion , with over half of it still concentrated in the production and export of primary commodities . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , but half of it , I have to confess , was the effect of deliberate choosing . |
| 4 | First , about half of it will be used to pay creditors and to meet legal fees connected with the bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 5 | And getting half of it chucked back because it 's not clean enough . |
| 6 | The next day , SHe would remember less than half of it . |
| 7 | I found it hard to picture what kind of landscape those statistics might have shaped , until I opened the Ordnance Survey map to find half of it coloured green with a great blue stain in the centre . |
| 8 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 9 | And in the past four decades we 've lost half of it . |
| 10 | Half of it remains to be saved . |
| 11 | Above it , is a cloud so dense it appears to be like a girder , half of it molten . |
| 12 | Half of it 's in French ’ . |
| 13 | The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate . |
| 14 | 656,000 hectares , 26% of the land area , is forested in the Auvergne , half of it deciduous , the remainder planted conifer . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the lower unit appears to have been extensively replaced by anhydrite to the point that on the original completion log , at least half of it was incorrectly attributed to the Z1 Anhydrite ( up to the arrow in Fig. 19 ) . |
| 16 | The cat could have eaten half of it while he had been asleep . |
| 17 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's good to be here , Wayne , ’ he said , and swallowed half of it before he put it down . |
| 19 | Prepare one of the following fillings and place half of it in a sausage shape down one edge of the pastry . |
| 20 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 21 | But you sense that 's only half of it , that there 's some form of exorcism going on here , some sort of expulsion of childhood ghosts . |
| 22 | Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch . |
| 23 | Half of it 's fiction . |
| 24 | Half the stuff on the album is about growing up in Birmingham in the '70s but half of it is about '90s subjects like ‘ Livin' On The Streets ’ and ‘ Fish And Chips ’ , which is about going to clubs . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I 'ad to give half of it back , ’ breathed Dolly . |
| 26 | And more than half of it is inside the chaotic relic of the former Soviet Union . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't know half of it ! ’ he was saying . |
| 28 | It was quite a large room , though the huge wood veneered desk seemed equal to the task of filling half of it . |
| 29 | The East India Company 's nominal capital of £740,000 would have been about 2 per cent of the national income , though in fact only half of it was paid up until calls for fresh capital had to be made in the 1690s . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |