Example sentences of "it [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a book about hierarchy , and that is why it became of interest to Carolingian bishops , as there is evidence that within a decade it did . |
| 2 | Since the product bore her name , it became of paramount importance to her to maintain an image of which she approved . |
| 3 | It has appeared to me , through all the seclusion of my life & the narrow experience it admitted of , that in nothing , men — & women too ! — were so apt to mistake their own feelings , as in this one thing . |
| 4 | It smelled of wine dregs , damp soot , and whitewash . |
| 5 | It smelled of horses . |
| 6 | It smelled of petrol and TCP . |
| 7 | Rules was decorated like a Victorian library ; it smelled of superior malt whiskies and very old leather . |
| 8 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 9 | Or she could say that Derek had always had charming manners and was in the habit of commending ladies on their scent , even if it smelled of Alexandrian sewers , and sound as though she had lost something worth keeping — and inevitably regretful . |
| 10 | It smelled of wood and a sort of quite pleasant mustiness . |
| 11 | It smelled of petrol . |
| 12 | It smelled of hot cake rising in the oven . |
| 13 | It smelled of Thérèse 's stale breath and sweat . |
| 14 | It smelled of shellfish , newsprint , disinfectant — and the lime-encrusted urinal at the far end . |
| 15 | Re-entering the cabin , she noticed how it smelled of them , of the mingled scents of their bodies , of the soaps they used , and the sweet , musky afterglow of love . |
| 16 | Too often it smelled of boiled cabbage and steamed fish . |
| 17 | Inside it smelled of timber and peat and wood-shavings . |
| 18 | It smelled of rotten straw , damp and an overpowering stench that caught in her throat , almost choking her . |
| 19 | It smelled of expensive cologne , and her skin tingled as he turned his head , his sensuous mouth drifting warmly , dangerously close to her cheek . |
| 20 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 21 | The most disturbing aspect of this incident was the evidence it provided of a residual antisemitism in Poland , disproportionate to the residue of a once-great Jewish community . |
| 22 | Distressing , I mean , for the evidence it provided of my father 's state of mind . |
| 23 | And it built of timber . |
| 24 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 25 | It tasted of petrol , mixed with creosote and hair oil . |
| 26 | A woman in a provincial restaurant ate a steak and complained that it tasted of cardboard . |
| 27 | There was no sugar on it , but it tasted of salt . |
| 28 | This cigarette tasted different ; it was a Gauloise , and it tasted of France , as pungent , as unacceptably alien as that knotty sausage . |
| 29 | It tasted of the half-life that we raise |
| 30 | It tasted of candied peel and nuts , and she was reaching for another one when she saw that Lucenzo 's head had lifted at the sound of a child 's piping tones . |