Example sentences of "of it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 2 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |
| 3 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 4 | The worst of it got better . |
| 5 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 6 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 7 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |
| 8 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 9 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 10 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 11 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 12 | Officially 20 acres of arable land was regarded as standard , but with some of it left fallow each year , many people must have got by with much less in practice , for in East Anglia , c . |
| 13 | In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds . |
| 14 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 15 | None of it made any sense . |
| 16 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 17 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 18 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 19 | The incident , and his own weak , almost contemptible handling of it came near to making his third premiership seem to himself and others an ill-judged prolongation of power , a disastrous epilogue to the rest of his career . |
| 20 | The rest of it remained open until the early seventeenth century , when new enclosures led to major agrarian unrest in the shire , with Cotesbach at the centre of it . |
| 21 | Yet if Eliot continued to remember his anthropological reading , this does not mean that his view of it remained unchanged . |
| 22 | Although there was a flurry of Jacobite plotting and conspiracy in the period 1689 – 97 , none of it stood much chance of success . |
| 23 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 24 | Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here . |
| 25 | The Vienna settlement of 1814 – 15 , the foundation of international relations for two generations to come , received strikingly little parliamentary discussion : only one or two aspects of it aroused any real public interest . |
| 26 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 27 | The lure of It proved irresistible . |