Example sentences of "of it [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 2 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |
| 3 | As you are aware , my father left half of it to each of us . ’ |
| 4 | Anna would n't speak of it at all for some time ; later we heard about Simon 's will — he left her various things , his art library for instance ( it 's a wonderful one ) — and it gave her some kind of peace . |
| 5 | Malthus assumed that the ‘ passion between the sexes ’ was constant ; modern demographers seldom think of it at all in academic terms , leaving it to medicine and biology ( Austin and Short 1980 , Parkes 1976 ) . |
| 6 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |
| 7 | I must have , 'cos there was no mention of it on Manc of the Day on either Saturday or Sunday , despite Jamie 's brilliant goals . |
| 8 | This remains an attractive option for some educators as can be seen in the Design Council supported Design Dimension Project ( Baynes , 1985 ) and there are echoes of it in many of LEA programmes supported by the Arts in Schools Project ( Schools Curriculum Development Committee , 1986a , 1986b and 1986c ) . |
| 9 | comments you could consider entering it or part of it in one of the many fiction competitions or submitting it in total to a which takes fiction . |
| 10 | but I think it would in fact you 'd maybe find records of it in some of the old Orkney boats . |