Example sentences of "of it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 2 | We could do with some of it over here so try and be a bit more friendly , dear Buddy , just think what it would buy ! |
| 3 | ‘ When we need it I 'll draw some of it over here . ’ |
| 4 | Finally , as this is the Christmas issue , I 'm finishing with a little quiz , which I hope you will find time to do just for the fun of it over the holiday . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 6 | ‘ One hundred and fifty miles , most of it over the sea . ’ |
| 7 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 8 | Played in English on a steeply-rigged stage in a shabby hall , this revival packs a pulverising punch , the most gripping account I have experienced of it over the years . |
| 9 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 10 | I just saw a little bit of it over there |
| 11 | Now it appears to be on the ‘ at risk ’ register , its reputation battered and bruised , part of it under review before it has even reached its first birthday . |
| 12 | To win a pound of gold the Rand miners had on the average to raise , crush and purify some sixty-seven tons of ore , much of it under extreme temperatures and from great depths . |
| 13 | He put it on the table and fixed the end of it under the lamp . |
| 14 | Spenser wrote A View of the Present State of Ireland not as a vindication of Elizabethan policy towards Ireland but as a document highly critical of it under a necessarily respectful guise . |
| 15 | His allowing X to repossess the car amounted to a ‘ delivery or transfer ’ of it under a ‘ disposition . ’ |
| 16 | It is estate duty that is leviable in respect of it under Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 . |
| 17 | If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further , he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze . |
| 18 | That after the conquest of Norway Swegen was put in charge of it under his mother 's tutelage reinforces this conclusion . |
| 19 | He liked the softness of silk , the slippery feel of it under his hands as he slowly undressed a woman in a shadowed bedroom . |
| 20 | Er so , that task , much of it under legislation , is carried out by fire officers and much of it as I say by good will and erm er advice to householders and bodies and erm big concerns and so on . |
| 21 | I would n't single him out , I would just say he 's not a strong teacher for the reason that he 's only got part of it under his belt properly yet . |
| 22 | So , if I want to play a melody , I 'll think of it along the strings rather than across , to take advantage of that . |
| 23 | A great crater had been formed , most of it below sea level , and soundings showed that where land had once stood 300 metres above sea level , the water was now 300 metres deep . |
| 24 | Well I thought you gave a very clear and er convincing account of it despite that so congratulations , well done , that was excellent . |
| 25 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 26 | But both Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon … established extensions of it beyond a simple gift of a chattel by its delivery : the former to a gift of money secured by a bond , by delivery of the bond ; the latter to a gift of money secured by a mortgage of land , by delivery of the mortgage deed . |
| 27 | When he began farming on his own account in 1778 he found an open and almost barren country , much of it worth only five shillings an acre . |
| 28 | It started as a movement , that is again the critics that is that again the critics picked it up and made something of it worth discussing in the mid-sixties . |
| 29 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 30 | This explains the consistency of the relation between birth weight and lung function and the lack of it between birth weight and respiratory illness . |