Example sentences of "of it [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson , with only six goals to show from United 's last 12 games , has £5m to spend and would be reluctant to pour most of it into one signing . |
| 2 | Behaviour has to be shaped up , bit by bit until the child is able to complete the whole of it as one process . |
| 3 | But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be . |
| 4 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 5 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 6 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 7 | Even from her high perch , Ace could n't see all of it at one glance . |
| 8 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 9 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 10 | you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing . |
| 11 | Wednesday looked suspiciously at the rope then seized hold of it with one hand . |
| 12 | He remained by the table , holding the edge of it with one hand because the table was shaking . |
| 13 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |
| 14 | He picked up his tankard and drank off half of it in one gulp . |
| 15 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 16 | Photographic memories apart , most people forget about 50% of what they 've read within minutes of putting the book down , and 80% of it within twenty-four hours . |