Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Apart from anything else you ca n't trust half of them because it all goes into interviews . ’
2 However , it is important for the designer to be aware of the nature and extent of the possibilities that are in principle available so that he may be able to exploit some of them when it seems appropriate .
3 The wiggly kind was found in wires in the walls and things , and somehow the Thing could steal some of it if it was close enough .
4 You might be able to some of it because it grows ever so easily you know .
5 have some of mine if it 's
6 He was very fond of her but it strained imagination to see how she could fit into a policeman 's life .
7 Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night .
8 My hair is so thick and there 's so much of it that it 's just too annoying for me .
9 Your poor wife ca n't be seeing much of you as it is . ’
10 Er and that 's been quite successful , about twenty five or thirty chief executives , chairman come to that lunch er each each quarter or so er we hosted about six of us and it 's a tremendous opportunity to get to know and be known er in the business community .
11 While they lived in la Sologne it never occurred to either of them that it was even possible for people like themselves to study music and become professional musicians .
12 She rapped on his door , swung it open and stood in the doorway , not trusting either of them if it was shut .
13 It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby .
14 No somebody could go in there who belonged to the church anyway , two or three of them and it would n't take long cutting all those brambles and things away .
15 As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’
16 It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected .
17 The confrontation convinced them that , on the contrary , they were so dogmatic and sure of themselves that it was obvious that they had no intention of being deterred .
18 It 's not always that way , but we are absolutely sick and tired of it and it 's about and sisters , that whenever we come across it , we make sure that those people do n't continue that type of harassment .
19 Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house .
20 all one time cards , all of them and it , there was a thing
21 Human selfishness is so real in all of us that it requires no social encouragement , as in the breakdown of marriage , to pass it on to our children .
22 Time is precious to all of us so it is worth ‘ wasting ’ a little to avoid wasting a lot .
23 Time is precious to all of us so it is worth ‘ wasting ’ a little to avoid wasting a lot .
24 And all of us as it were , set aside as a block , all the second homes as holiday homes and say , those are as it were , outside this enquiry , we 'll leave them there .
25 I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ .
26 He was a dangerous individual , capable of anything if it seriously threatened his position as the leader of Russia .
27 I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not .
28 The legendary Miller ski , made in the USA , was one of them and it became a rather hot seller in the upmarket ski boutiques of London .
29 Well I got one of them and it 's pure silk , pale green and white and with all lacy I thought I like it .
30 ‘ And what happens if it lasts longer for one of us than it does for the other ? ’
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