Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 I went no you 're not , I thought you were taking the piss out of me when you said it .
2 In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’
3 ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road .
4 Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in …
5 It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days .
6 Now you 're petrified of being stopped by any of them cos you know it 's
7 ‘ What is this history of yours that you think it irrecoverable ?
8 We 've got that techno album of yours and we play it all the time .
9 Nothing happens and then the whole bloody thing is on top of you before you know it .
10 It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie .
11 I showed it to a friend of mine and he thought it was splendid — he really did — but he says he ca n't publish it .
12 Now where 's the question in the book , let's see what , what you made of it before you copied it down .
13 ‘ It 's good to be here , Wayne , ’ he said , and swallowed half of it before he put it down .
14 There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker
15 I 've been out on the on the streets and the roads and we 've had a few beers and I 've not seen any trouble but the first I 've heard of trouble was was this morning after breakfast in a nearby hotel and and by by the trouble that 's been caused I do n't know the details of it but I believe it 's been quite intense really .
16 and of course the insurance people would not pay out on either , wiped their hands of it because they reckoned it was nothing
17 She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small .
18 If you cut the ash in , it was whitish , but if you cut it in , most of it when you cut it down , it was more like cream colour .
19 I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel .
20 You do n't need to heat it they just there 's a bar of it and they pull it .
21 He tore out the early pages and gave me the rest of it and we use it now for our visitors ' signatures . ‘
22 Now as she , I flapped it , I got hold of it and I flapped it so it , I sort of bounced about , she sort of bumped along
23 and I used half of it and I put it , put some onion and some sliced potatoes in the oven
24 But he came and sorted me out and I asked , I said I 'll see what I can do and I got hold of it and I did it for him .
25 Keith was with him through all of it and I think it made them very close , ’ adds Rigby .
26 ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it .
27 He liked the sound of it as he said it .
28 That 's nice , but you still do n't know what people think of it until you put it out .
29 I 'm not suggesting for one moment it 's easy , but I mean is it possible that , you know erm accepting that this is a major conflict , it does involve all of us whether we like it or not
30 David was ambitious for all of us — he was honestly ambitious for all of us and we loved it .
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