Example sentences of "of it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , as this is the Christmas issue , I 'm finishing with a little quiz , which I hope you will find time to do just for the fun of it over the holiday . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 3 | ‘ One hundred and fifty miles , most of it over the sea . ’ |
| 4 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 5 | Played in English on a steeply-rigged stage in a shabby hall , this revival packs a pulverising punch , the most gripping account I have experienced of it over the years . |
| 6 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 7 | Spenser wrote A View of the Present State of Ireland not as a vindication of Elizabethan policy towards Ireland but as a document highly critical of it under a necessarily respectful guise . |
| 8 | His allowing X to repossess the car amounted to a ‘ delivery or transfer ’ of it under a ‘ disposition . ’ |
| 9 | He put it on the table and fixed the end of it under the lamp . |
| 10 | So , if I want to play a melody , I 'll think of it along the strings rather than across , to take advantage of that . |
| 11 | But both Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon … established extensions of it beyond a simple gift of a chattel by its delivery : the former to a gift of money secured by a bond , by delivery of the bond ; the latter to a gift of money secured by a mortgage of land , by delivery of the mortgage deed . |
| 12 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of it about A late-season flu bug has bitten Scotland , writes Ian Mullen |
| 14 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |
| 15 | I 've still got bits of it about the porno magazines and that though . |
| 16 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 17 | Although he has a large enough income to support them both , he puts most of it into a building society and also invests money in shares . |
| 18 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |
| 19 | ‘ Gone are the days when we used to crumble half a ola of it into a chillim of tobacco . ’ |
| 20 | They formed a circle round him and he broke out of it into a gallop , tearing round and round the square in a high-spirited frenzy . |
| 21 | " Take as much lean of boiled ham as you please , and half the quantity of fat , cut it as thin as possible , beat it very fine in a mortar , with a little oiled butter , beaten mace , pepper and salt , pot part of it into a china pot , then beat the white part of a fowl with a very little seasoning ; it is to qualify the ham , put a lay of chicken , then one of ham , then chicken at the top , press it hard down , and when it is cold , pour clarified butter over it ; when you send it to the table cut out a thin slice in the form of half a diamond , and lay it round the edge of your pot . " |
| 22 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 23 | She was winding one end of it into a little ball . |
| 24 | " En vacances " was a short exercise which involved the location of information and incorporating some of it into a letter to be written in French , using a word processor . |
| 25 | He still stays in a church house and has converted part of it into a chapel , where he celebrates mass for 200 people every Sunday . |
| 26 | To do well , you need to become sensitive both to surges of lift and to the feeling of flying out of it into the sink . |
| 27 | He quickly wrote to London to apologise , and asked if he might use Dr. Watt 's " Short View of the Whole Scripture History " , asserting that " the author was a Dissenter , and the introduction of it into the School is not likely to create any fresh difficulty " . |
| 28 | ‘ So why not bring a little of it into the office ? ’ |
| 29 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 30 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |