Example sentences of "it [adj] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man in the room withdrew his arm and shook it free of slivers before turning the gun around ready for use . |
| 2 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 3 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 4 | She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world . |
| 5 | Whatever it is , they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness . |
| 6 | One thinks of Groucho Marx 's quip : ‘ Giving up smoking is easy — I 've done it hundreds of times . ’ |
| 7 | When the book was nearing publication , a scientist who was sent an advance copy to review for Nature magazine was appalled to find it full of errors , with misplaced and erroneously labeled photographs and diagrams . |
| 8 | Johnson found it full of weeds ; today it is tailored and fitted . |
| 9 | Jenna nodded , her eyes on the field , trying to imagine it full of poppies and trying to keep her mind off Alain . |
| 10 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 11 | I used to fill it full of vegetables |
| 12 | It has , however , gone on to achieve wide publicity on the high rating US TV programme , 50 Minutes , where it was claimed to " take conventional wisdom about air pollution and shoot it full of holes " . |
| 13 | Then some damned smart lawyer comes along and shoots it full of writs and affidavits . |
| 14 | ‘ She packed it full of photos and mementos , turning it into a shrine to her husband . |
| 15 | Then in 1983 Francis Coppola , in search of a money-spinner , came up with The Outsiders , a story of teenage rebellion in the fifties , and cast it full of unknowns who would n't demand huge fees . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , Hoving became rapidly intoxicated with his own power and was incapable of maintaining the balance between forcefulness and arrogance , between populism and vulgarity ; between protecting and caring for the art under the Met 's roof and blithely selling it heedless of scholars or donors . |
| 17 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 18 | ‘ I have done it thousands of times before and will do it thousands of times again . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I have done it thousands of times before and will do it thousands of times again . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We must have seen it dozens of times , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I 've dived into it dozens of times . |