Example sentences of "[noun sg] of it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 2 | In the 1060s Pisa won a substantial fortune in a naval raid on Palermo , still in Muslim hands , and dedicated a handsome part of it to beautifying the famous religious quarter of the city — laying the foundations of cathedral and baptistry and other ecclesiastical buildings . |
| 3 | or part of it at leapt , should be united with this parish under one Kirk session , they associate with them as a member of Session . " |
| 4 | When we got the Hill Farm Subsidy and we were obliged to spend a certain part of it in putting something back in the soil , uncle liked Middleton Lime , so he spread a bit of that around along with basic slag , and cow manure , of course . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 6 | ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as a liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or |
| 7 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 8 | Whatever the specialised interests of visitors to this region , they can gain a reasonable general orientation of it before starting their particular excursions , by taking the 3 hour boat trip from Luzern to Fluelen or vice versa . |
| 9 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 10 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 11 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 12 | But it was the Victorian taste for jet , spurred by the Queen 's adoption of it for mourning that forged the unforgettable link with Whitby . |
| 13 | Oh , certainly I know the common practice of reading the future by opening the Evangel blindly , and laying a finger on the page , but what is this official use of it in consecrating a new bishop ? |
| 14 | The shifts in pace , in tone , in level , come at us without warning , so that even as one part of the brain tries to grasp at this or that , to make sense of it before moving on , the rest responds to the exhilaration of being swept along the verbal equivalent of a ghost railway . |
| 15 | When you have to get up from a settee , it will take less effort if you first come to the edge of it before attempting to stand . |
| 16 | So again think about that aspect of it in identifying training needs . |
| 17 | It is conduct which in these circumstances falls to be dealt with in the trial itself by judicial control upon admissibility of evidence , the judicial power to direct a verdict of not guilty , usually at the close of the prosecution 's case , or by the jury taking account of it in evaluating the evidence before them . |
| 18 | I managed to avoid a lot of it by having some tasks of my own . |
| 19 | of it er but I 'd rather be viewed on my own merits on my own worth er be willing to take a few risks in life erm and know that I 've got the rewards at the end of it for making a success . |
| 20 | It would even be possible for people to watch a political or parliamentary debate at home on television , and then register their vote or opinion at the end of it by pressing a button or making a free phone-call . |
| 21 | Gooch was so disillusioned by his last full tour to India that he barely unpacked his bags at home in Essex at the end of it before joining the first rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 22 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 23 | Paisley had based his assertion about the danger to himself on a warning from inside the security forces and this fact meant that he could not establish the credibility of it by revealing the source of his information . |
| 24 | In Emmerson ( reported at [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 194 with Commentary ) the tape had been played at trial , and the question was whether the jury were entitled to be provided with a copy of it after retiring , so that they could hear again the all-important tone of voice of the officer conducting one of the interviews . |
| 25 | Filming took place in a Victorian house in Shepherd 's Bush ; the back of it was used as the production office and the front of it for filming . |