Example sentences of "of it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 2 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 3 | It was plain to her that her therapist was meticulous , thoughtful and highly trained — it was undeniable — but Scarlet increasingly found all that beside the point because her malaise had not significantly decreased with treatment , and worrying about the cost of it kept her awake at night . |
| 4 | Much of it kept for himself and his family . |
| 5 | He had a small but good library , much of it kept on shelves on the first landing . |
| 6 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 7 | Lot of it export . |
| 8 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 9 | The enormity of it rocked her . |
| 10 | The thought of it rocked him in his chair . |
| 11 | Regular users of it wrap the edges round wooden batons , secured with a few tacks , leaving these to rest on the ground , and rolling it up on the batons when the season is over . |
| 12 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 13 | In Britain this is a ground nesting bird of the open country , and there is no record of it entering caves , but like the snowy owl it could have altered its behaviour during colder stages of the Pleistocene . |
| 14 | Nor do they hesitate to make use of it to promote their offspring , generally referred to as the zolotyie dietki — or golden youth . |
| 15 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 16 | Beginning with a modest advance of £6,000 to James I in 1613 , his formal loans culminated in his truly massive advances of the war years 1624–9 , amounting to more than £127,000 , much of it to finance English and foreign military operations ; not to mention the £55,000 which he and the Russia Company magnate Sir Ralph Freeman advanced in 1624 . |
| 17 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 18 | One of the tsar-reformer 's great achievements was the foundation of the Russian navy , much of it consisting of wooden galleys propelled by the collective muscle-power of conscript or convict oarsmen . |
| 19 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 20 | The impossibility of it grew in Paul 's mind , and by the time he reached his lodgings that was made up . |
| 21 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 22 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 23 | The witness concerned should explain that he had a good unobstructed view of the traffic lights and that they were at red when the vehicle or part of it passed them . |
| 24 | The worst of it passed , but his teeth still chattered feebly . |
| 25 | The history of attempts to control and regulate corporate crimes does not give much cause for optimism , and indeed the idea of it reduces radicals to knowing laughter . |
| 26 | Part of it reads : ‘ Information ( about the trust ) must always be treated as strictly confidential and further , must not be divulged to any individual or organisation , including the press , without the prior written approval of the Chief Executive or his nominated deputy . ’ |
| 27 | Meanwhile his sales of It continued as a profitable sideline . |
| 28 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 29 | It was impossible to avoid each other in such a hectic department , but fortunately the very business of it meant that any and every contact was necessarily fairly brisk . |
| 30 | A long pole was fitted to the front of it to control the swaying . |