Example sentences of "of it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 2 | If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further , he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze . |
| 3 | Well I thought you gave a very clear and er convincing account of it despite that so congratulations , well done , that was excellent . |
| 4 | There is lot of it about these days and not just in the police service . |
| 5 | All methods include : ( a ) grouping of material ( b ) an arrangement of it into some sort of sequence |
| 6 | ‘ Was any of it of any use , ’ I asked , ‘ My course I mean . ’ |
| 7 | You know you want to know and I would 've thought that the higher the management the more they want to know the implications , the financial of it of any plan which you 're going into . |
| 8 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 9 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 10 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 11 | ’ Think of it as another reason for you to stay away from big gorgeous women with enormous boobs ’ . |
| 12 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 13 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 14 | I 'm far too fond of it for that . |
| 15 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 16 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 18 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 19 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 20 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 21 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |
| 22 | More time and energy has been expended on the history of roads and tracks than on any other feature in the English landscape and most of it to little effect . |
| 23 | Rather it is couched in absolutist terms that reify literacy as though its very essence were being described and that unjustifiably relate specific cultural manifestations of it to such universals as logic , abstraction etc . |
| 24 | As you are aware , my father left half of it to each of us . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't feel a part of it to any degree . |
| 26 | He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things . |
| 27 | I do n't like the sound of it at all . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , there 's no lack of it at all , that 's what this place is for . |
| 29 | Most of this information is disconcertingly dry : we have to squeeze it hard to make anything of it at all . |
| 30 | I could n't make any sense out of it at all . |