Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 2 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 3 | I suppose you 're frightened of me messing it all up for you , with my dirty boots and all that … . ’ |
| 4 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 5 | The sheer numbers of them make it spectacular although there are no huge centrepiece fireworks . |
| 6 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 7 | The saxophonist 's widow refused to lie in Ken and Rhoda 's bed , so Ken offered it to Bernard and Ellen : they took the offer , rightly , as a gesture of approval , and the four of them carried it one very early morning from No. 97 to No. 93 . |
| 8 | Protests were also heard from the leaderships in the Baltic republics , Georgia and Armenia , all of them making it clear that they would not co-operate with the army in organizing joint patrols , while the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 31 passed a resolution saying that the presidential decree had no legal force on its territory . |
| 9 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 10 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 11 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |
| 12 | question eight , in Britain we play the game draughts , in America the same game is called checkers er , number nine , one or two of you got it right , most of you caught out with M G sports cars , the M G actually stands for Morris Garages |
| 13 | Fletcher resolves this by saying that ‘ [ It ] all depends on what doctors customarily do , ’ so that if doctors customarily switch off ventilators in the circumstances under discussion , then this of itself makes it lawful to do so . |
| 14 | of who thought it all up , the opening night |
| 15 | Muttering frustratedly as she struggled to undo it , in desperation she wriggled free of him to make it easier . |
| 16 | Actually he was a very nice man , cheerful and good-natured , but the other side of him blotted it all out . |
| 17 | I divorced my ex-husband five years ago , after years of him making it obvious that I was acting as a ‘ brake ’ on his life . |
| 18 | I think it was then I tried to work out her relationship to Gómez , but the complexity of it made it difficult to grasp . |
| 19 | Her raincoat was not belted — her skirt was too long — her brown hair hung down her back with a pale blue kerchief tied over the top of it to keep it clean on the train . |
| 20 | I knew that soon I would have to come to grips with what had happened , to wring some meaning out of it to make it endurable ; but for the moment I simply could n't bear to think about it . |
| 21 | The compacted mudflow presents a much more serious problem to archaeologists than the relatively soft pumice of Pompeii , and this coupled with the awkward presence of the new town on top of it makes it unlikely that it will ever be completely excavated . |
| 22 | Perhaps what was most lacking in the left 's criticism of A Very British Coup was any general discussion of the distinct importance of television as a medium and , more specifically , the question of what makes it such a potentially politically effective medium . |
| 23 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 24 | I do n't recall which of us spoke it first , but as the end approached we were both mouthing it imploringly , like a prayer , like a spell . |
| 25 | It means erm learning with each other and learning from each other because none of us knows it all ! |
| 26 | Some of us find it hard to adapt to country life . |
| 27 | Many of us find it difficult to have faith and trust and feel love for someone that we can not see and often feel that we can not hear or get close to . |
| 28 | Subtraction : Working on the basis that most of us find it easier to add than to subtract , why not use addition to make the subtraction process simpler . |
| 29 | Most of us find it easier to use our mouths without our minds , than our minds without our mouths . |