Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks like one of Mephistco 's junior-staff training sessions . |
| 2 | It looks like most of Pearl Jam 's equipment is ruined . |
| 3 | It happened during one of Mrs Mouse 's musical evenings . |
| 4 | He had no hesitation , he said , in accepting the evidence of Mr. Tucker wherever it conflicted with that of Mr. O'Brien . |
| 5 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 6 | As the air catches the membranes , the fish is lifted above the waves and it glides for hundreds of metres leaving its pursuers baffled . |
| 7 | The cone begins to vibrate more and more — then it explodes into thousands of fragments of light , which fall gently around you . |
| 8 | ( ‘ I heard it said of one of Hitler 's speeches : ‘ Oh , she 's in a right state ’ , ’ the author recalls . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Promiscuous , public and semi-professional ’ , it said in one of Madame 's books about the lives of the great courtesans , and I think that 's about it . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , specialization in some groups of plants does occur , as it does in some of animals , such that the broadly different ‘ syndromes ’ of pollination and dispersal have evolved repeatedly in different families and genera of plants and are apparently incipient even within some species . |
| 11 | ‘ It dates from hundreds of years ago . |
| 12 | The algal mat deposit is strongly diachronous to us ephemeral human beings , but even if it extended for hundreds of miles inland it would still be virtually synchronous geologically . |
| 13 | But , er it comes in hundreds of stuff like this . |