Example sentences of "of it [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't think of it as taking away one thinking of it , think of it as minus one , a number . |
| 2 | If you find yourself in this difficulty , first try to get out of it by using only compatible drives . |
| 3 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 4 | She tried to get out of it by standing up and stretching as if the conversation was threatening to bore her stiff . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nicola took a run at the slope and gained a third of it before dropping nearly to all fours to grab at little ridges and tufts of grass . |
| 7 | 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 . |