Example sentences of "of it and [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hank had no doubt that , sooner or later , old tabby-cats like the MacDonald woman would get wind of it and would give his mother hell about it . |
| 2 | The Head of Department then said that he considered that the criticism had been constructive , that he accepted most of it and would try out various changes . |
| 3 | so let's get rid of some of it and let's make the angle theta . |
| 4 | If I 'm going to spend several hundred pounds on an outfit , I make sure I get real value out of it and will wear it a lot . |
| 5 | Lucille herself never used her title , but she knew Sharpe was perversely proud of it and must have informed the Prince of its existence . |
| 6 | Restlessly Leith moved over to the window , but while the view from her room was quite exquisite , she saw nothing of it and could see only Naylor 's furious face as he accused her of leading Travis on . |
| 7 | Joan had thought of it and could understand Anne 's feelings . |
| 8 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 9 | But the Rastas felt that the language was the African people 's own , that they should be proud of it and should set about improving it " ( 1986a : 44 ) . |