Example sentences of "of it [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 2 | There is lot of it about these days and not just in the police service . |
| 3 | All methods include : ( a ) grouping of material ( b ) an arrangement of it into some sort of sequence |
| 4 | You know you want to know and I would 've thought that the higher the management the more they want to know the implications , the financial of it of any plan which you 're going into . |
| 5 | ‘ Was any of it of any use , ’ I asked , ‘ My course I mean . ’ |
| 6 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 7 | ’ Think of it as another reason for you to stay away from big gorgeous women with enormous boobs ’ . |
| 8 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 9 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 10 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 11 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 12 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 13 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 14 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 15 | More time and energy has been expended on the history of roads and tracks than on any other feature in the English landscape and most of it to little effect . |
| 16 | Rather it is couched in absolutist terms that reify literacy as though its very essence were being described and that unjustifiably relate specific cultural manifestations of it to such universals as logic , abstraction etc . |
| 17 | I do n't feel a part of it to any degree . |
| 18 | He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things . |
| 19 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 20 | I myself know only too well what it 's like to have a car stolen , so as a car is one of our most valuable possessions , it pays to take care of it at all times . |
| 21 | ‘ Keep the media out of it at all costs for the moment . |
| 22 | It meant that Mrs Constantine had been asked to attend a meeting and wanted to get out of it at all costs . |
| 23 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 24 | But I do n't think we should make too much of it at this stage . |
| 25 | Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that . |
| 26 | I said look Neil you can drive , but let's not let's not take it that I 'm saying that you must drive let's go into the question of why you 're making a mess of it at this time and we , oh honestly Brenda if I 've got black circles under my eyes do not be surprised because , of course , this all goes back to his absolutely , appallingly , stupid mother ! |
| 27 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 28 | We have only a very limited amount of it on this planet , and to get the most from your life you need to fill it fruitfully . |
| 29 | She says she 's spent her life living modestly , as Eric wanted , but now she wants to blow a bit of it on some fun … |
| 30 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |