Example sentences of "of it by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , if the offence be not punishable in the Star-Chamber , the prohibition of it by proclamation can not make it punishable there : and after this resolution , no proclamation imposing fine and imprisonment was afterwards made , & c . |
| 2 | " If you 'll follow me now , " replied Hazel desperately , " I 'll have you out of it by sunrise . " |
| 3 | For as little as £100,000 , some of it by courtesy of the Department of Agriculture , Cuffey has turned 40 acres of rolling farm land into a snug 4,800-yard , par 66 course that high-handicap players especially , will enjoy and want to play again . |
| 4 | I had heard of it by name , but never quite knew what it was . |
| 5 | Rachaela did not like the look of it by night . |
| 6 | I know every word of it by heart . |
| 7 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 8 | ‘ Had to learn great chunks of it by heart . |
| 9 | ‘ But as I was packing the stuff into a carrier bag at the check-out I missed the butcher meat and sat a carrier bag on top of it by mistake . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The lighthouses were built , operated , financed and owned by private individuals , who could sell the lighthouse or dispose of it by bequest , ’ Mr Coase found . |
| 11 | It was a mammoth undertaking involving digging into the side of a sheer cliff face , much of it by hand since the proximity of buildings made the use of explosives hazardous . |
| 12 | You can buy packets of it by mail order from HDRA Sales Ltd Tel : 0203–303517 |
| 13 | We can get rid of much of it by subduction , but certain Orogenic episodes ( notably the Hercynian ) seem to have very little to show of the ocean floor . |
| 14 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |