Example sentences of "[vb past] of it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper .
2 But nothing came of it in the end .
3 Once they talked of it in the village shop , the whole village would know by nightfall .
4 But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships .
5 How tenderly everybody spoke of it during the broadcast !
6 When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer .
7 A leafy bushy plant , much branched , Culpeper in the 17th century wrote of it as the " herb which all authors are together by the ears about , and rail at one another like lawyers " .
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