Example sentences of "of it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson , with only six goals to show from United 's last 12 games , has £5m to spend and would be reluctant to pour most of it into one signing . |
| 2 | Behaviour has to be shaped up , bit by bit until the child is able to complete the whole of it as one process . |
| 3 | But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be . |
| 4 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 5 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 6 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 7 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 8 | Even from her high perch , Ace could n't see all of it at one glance . |
| 9 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 10 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 11 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |
| 12 | you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing . |
| 13 | Only Willey , who seemed to play his best Test innings against West Indian thunderbolts , made a fight of it with 71 ; Botham hammered a quick 29 , but the last wicket went down for 152 , leaving West Indies needing five to win . |
| 14 | Wednesday looked suspiciously at the rope then seized hold of it with one hand . |
| 15 | He remained by the table , holding the edge of it with one hand because the table was shaking . |
| 16 | The Government 's accumulated fiscal surpluses will then be available both to revive an economy which has had the excess heat taken out of it during 1989/90 and to restore its electoral fortunes . |
| 17 | Poor old Yallop , Spruce thought , had had quite a day of it after twenty-five entirely uneventful — and promotionless — years in the force . |
| 18 | Invergordon did not have an easy time of it in 1992 , a fact reflected both by turnover , down 8 per cent at £85 million , and operating profits , down 3.8 per cent at £35.3 million . |
| 19 | Wilberforce doubted that humanitarian zeal had sufficient staying power despite his own and others ' expression of it in 1792 . |
| 20 | There is a lack of historical evidence relating to the Barwick-in-Elmet maypole before a poem by Edward Burlend described the stealing of it in 1829 ( an event reminiscent of Gawthorpe maypole 's early history ! ) . |
| 21 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 22 | Nothing came of it in 1545 , though in June French troops arrived to give the Scots temporary assistance against the English . |
| 23 | It is how , as a fire-brand of the Left , he was able to seize control of it in 1983 and then haul the lumbering edifice to the Right . |
| 24 | We argued for it and voted in favour of it in 1987 and in 1988 . |
| 25 | A party supporting the government , yet differing from most of the other members of it in one specific particular : its opposition to the tariff . |
| 26 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |
| 27 | He picked up his tankard and drank off half of it in one gulp . |
| 28 | comments you could consider entering it or part of it in one of the many fiction competitions or submitting it in total to a which takes fiction . |
| 29 | With so much archive material from the Bismarck and Tirpitz researches left over I was able to incorporate much of it in two successful books , Pursuit on the Bismarck , and Menace on the Tirpitz . |
| 30 | Exasperated with all this pussy-footing , and knowing of Mountbatten 's wishes that what he had said should be known , I saw to it that a transcript of the Suez programme reached my friend Bernard Levin at The Times , and he published the core of it in two long articles . |