Example sentences of "of it was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 2 | on the thing and I said well he 'll have to be fucking stretched if they come to that door and none of them dishes and the best of it was the front door would n't open |
| 3 | The main beneficiary of it was the agricultural worker and the principal loser the landowner . |
| 4 | And then i , but the best of it was the other day we |
| 5 | It was funny and sad , but the miracle of it was the good-humoured way in which Rosenthal ( an old Coronation Street hand ) made the crushing boredom of it all , the sullenness and tantrums , seem somehow interesting . |