Example sentences of "of it at [det] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't like the sound of it at all .
2 ‘ Oh , there 's no lack of it at all , that 's what this place is for .
3 Most of this information is disconcertingly dry : we have to squeeze it hard to make anything of it at all .
4 I could n't make any sense out of it at all .
5 He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all .
6 At the level of the Governor of the state to which that city belongs , the riot will be regarded only as a nuisance ; above that the king or the premier will hardly be aware of it at all , and to the whole world , it will be trivial .
7 If this is the case we may be standing , sitting or walking in a way that is putting enormous stresses on our structure without us even being aware of it at all .
8 He could n't make any sense of it at all .
9 African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives .
10 I must say I never saw any sign of it at all .
11 ‘ Keep the media out of it at all costs for the moment .
12 Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness .
13 I do n't think much of it at all .
14 The whole thing about a talk show is that you have to ask the questions that people are interested in — not in a way that puts the guest on the spot or makes them feel awkward — we 're not out to ‘ get ’ anyone , that 's not the idea of it at all — but certain things must be asked .
15 Whatever it was , she still had no recollection of it at all .
16 Many of his fellow British actors — throughout the years — only affected to despise the movies : they themselves were not asked to do them or , if asked , played minor roles or did not get the hang of it at all .
17 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 ) .
18 No I , its not my speciality , I have tried and I , I really ca n't , I ca n't cope with the discipline of it at all , it , it er ruins the activity that I have , I know some people , one , one woman I was on the course with , it was n't you was it Phillip ? , it was somebody , was it you who worked , no
19 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 .
20 And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed .
21 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 .
22 I think she truly did n't realize I knew nothing of it at all .
23 However , Howard Samuel could remember nothing of it at all .
24 But he said I probably wo n't taking any notice of it at all .
25 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 .
26 If he were to put lotion on my hair , however nice it smelled , the bees would n't think much of it at all .
27 And I am not really sure of it at all , she thought , standing up and looking about her .
28 You ca n't retain control of it at all .
29 Few others , other than the employees , made anything out of it at all , though Elizabeth had her Royalties .
30 Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all .
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