Example sentences of "of it [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A criminal psychopath would not want to kick someone 's face in for the fun of it unless he had at least an inkling of what it feels like to the victim . |
| 2 | ‘ Most single people enjoy living alone and make the most of it while it lasts . ’ |
| 3 | The cat could have eaten half of it while he had been asleep . |
| 4 | She tried to make sense of it while he parted her hair neatly on either side of her neck . |
| 5 | I was going to tell him what he could do with his job but I thought better of it an' I took my cards all polite like . |
| 6 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 8 | ‘ It is important to know of it if you are to understand our lore , though I think you already know more of it than you realize … |
| 9 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 10 | In fact he got more out of it than I did , I think . |
| 11 | Stephen took particular note of it after he had taken Lyn to the Mootwalk and parked the car in the market square . |
| 12 | Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out . |
| 13 | It added : ‘ On average water services cost each household 46p a day for delivering 840 pints of water and safely disposing of it after it has been used . |
| 14 | You or any member of your party may cancel you booking , or part of it once it has been confirmed , but the instructions will only be valid if in writing and signed by the person who signed the Booking Form . |
| 15 | It 's making a game of it before we go down that matters . |
| 16 | Prunella had nicely been trying to prise him out of it before they came , but she was timid of him . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the foregoing does express the nature of the situation as it really is and people should be very well aware of it before they decide to start a family or indulge in sexual activity likely to produce a child . |
| 18 | Now where 's the question in the book , let's see what , what you made of it before you copied it down . |
| 19 | I must admit to being unaware of it before you wrote . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I 'd wait until I made a go of it before I told you . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's good to be here , Wayne , ’ he said , and swallowed half of it before he put it down . |
| 22 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |
| 23 | If a negative thought is about to enter your mind try to become aware of it before it has had time to take root in your unconscious and put it aside , replacing it with a positive thought . |
| 24 | We 've had no other reported sighting of it before it entered the Broad . |
| 25 | I managed to get a copy of it before it hits the shops . |
| 26 | probably get about three miles out er two or three miles of it before it runs out . |
| 27 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 28 | Unfortunately , we will not see anything of it since it happens in our daytime . |
| 29 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 30 | It would be interesting to hear just how much of the programme that I have outlined the Government support , those aspects of it that they do not , and why . |