Example sentences of "[adv] of it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 John Newsom brought to that task an intimate knowledge of the workings of the Establishment , a rich store of anecdote ( much of it scurrilous ) , a delight in getting to know his fellow members and in entertaining them in princely style , and a huge sense of fun .
2 According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer .
3 Gascoigne admitted : ‘ It was so intense , it was like a matter of life or death , and thank God I 've come out of it alive .
4 They responded by giving the general area a few desultory squirts with their foam , but informed me the place was a total loss , and that I should be fully content with having got out of it alive .
5 It 's a wonder anyone got out of it alive . ’
6 He had come out of it successful , respected and secretly wealthy .
7 ‘ I 'll come out of it unscathed .
8 Why do men think that they can use women and come out of it unscathed ? ’
9 But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 .
10 This had his name on it , + he ate his breakfast out of it each morning .
11 That he could walk in and out of it unannounced never made it less than her own .
12 It 's not right they were out of it six months before then .
13 ‘ I tell you Cooper would n't bust out of it that way .
14 You ca n't get out of it that way !
15 If the accused intends to keep the thing until all the goodness or virtue has gone out of it that is equivalent to an outright taking .
16 But och , who would want to live here , out of it all , and with a weary hill to climb …
17 Good has come out of it all , she says .
18 He was a different David but thankfully he soon got out of it all , ’ she says .
19 Similar to these are the filter-feeders , animals that pass a current of water through their bodies and take out of it all the food they need .
20 And when words can manage something of this , and manage it in a moment in time , and in that same moment make out of it all the vital signature of a human being — not of an atom , or of a geometrical diagram , or a heap of lenses — but a human being , we call it poetry .
21 the impact of the comet obliterated large portions of the Animal Kingdom , with mammals suffering just as severe depredations as the reptiles ( fishes and other marine animals probably came out of it all comparatively lightly )
22 It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting .
23 That wily old fellow Javed Miandad came out of it all with a commendation for trying to calm his prayers .
24 Out of it all he appears to have extracted , and given , an uncommon amount of pleasure .
25 ‘ Tony and Stephen are still at home and Terry 's safe out of it all in Germany , Joe 's safe too training the young lads , and so is Eileen .
26 Humans go in and out of it all day !
27 He repeatedly told himself he 'd beat the stiffness out of it one day .
28 She has , she feels , passed through the narcissistic clubber/good time girl phase and come out of it stronger , more resilient , but also more tolerant .
29 ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger .
30 seen so much of it that it , that somebody will see some of it but then , well maybe there , and he did n't really erm , you know , you get out of it quick .
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