Example sentences of "of it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound of it brought Silas into the shearers ' quarters . |
| 2 | The front of it had oak beams and curved glass in the shape of a Wurlitzer jukebox . |
| 3 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 4 | There was a terrible resignation about it and a patience , and the pity of it slammed Taliesin at the base of his throat . |
| 5 | The moon , the mountains , the man — himself — standing there in the darkness : none of it made sense to him . |
| 6 | None of it made sense . |
| 7 | Holly and ivy , the green leaves of winter … the thought of it made Tallis sing the carol , and Wynne-Jones joined in , adding his cracking voice to the melancholy memory of Christmas festivity . |
| 8 | The size of the camp when they came in sight of it made Rostov 's eyes widen with surprise . |
| 9 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 10 | The diversity of material was due to the fact that much of it came courtesy of local mill-owners . |
| 11 | And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends . |
| 12 | The deliberate cruelty of it gave Theda the strength she needed . |
| 13 | On 9 October , 1957 the atomic pile of No. 1 Reactor at Windscale in Cumberland , north-west England , began to overheat and part of it caught fire . |
| 14 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |
| 15 | The sight of it snapped Marie out of her dreamworld . |
| 16 | The house was beautiful and the sight of it silenced Jenna utterly . |