Example sentences of "of it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chain wound its way round various wheels and cogs and at the end of it hung a large bucket . |
| 2 | The knowledge of it caused a strange mixture of pride and jealousy , love and hatred , which troubled him and even now made him stay his hand before announcing his decision . |
| 3 | De Gaulle had clearly created this confrontation , but it would be misleading to suggest that his courting of it represented a fundamental change in direction , either in ideology or method . |
| 4 | A street lamp threw faint light and out of it came a young woman . |
| 5 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 6 | But now , along the middle of it came an old woman pushing a hand-cart on which was a pile of rags . |
| 7 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 8 | None of it removed the nagging misery from her mind , the horror at the thought of Eleanor Thorne , sweet-natured as she was , being consigned to a mental hospital for geriatrics , to a public ward in a public bed , her possessions named with white tapes , her false teeth removed , her talk and actions , perhaps even her death , made common property . |