Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 2 | I turned over the ashes , found the glow within the crust , added some kindling and a log , then stood to stretch with my hands in the small of my back because it was aching . |
| 3 | I did n't want to lose any of my squad and it makes my job a little bit easier this summer . ’ |
| 4 | I lost half of my friends when it happened |
| 5 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 6 | While I put my purchases on the sliding counter he kept patting the inside of my thigh until it drove me to desperation . |
| 7 | I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore . |
| 8 | It has been six weeks , almost , but the friendly hot flush fills me to the top of my head and it is beautiful . |
| 9 | The water came up to my cross-bar of my bike so it must have been about three feet deep . |
| 10 | So even if in ten years , twenty years time , I put a claim , the money I get then , will be the same seventy odd per cent of my salary as it would be today . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's written at the front of my note-book and it says ‘ Private ’ in case you had n't noticed . ’ |
| 12 | Like most graduates , my student days were a very important part of my life and it 's good to feel I ‘ belong ’ again . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , I 'll probably be at the end of my life when it happens |
| 14 | For years visualization has been an everyday part of my life as it is an everyday pad of every writer 's day . |
| 15 | I vowed then , as I have vowed many times before and since , that I would never again make myself so vulnerable to the team , that I would get them off my back and out of my life if it was the last thing I did . |
| 16 | An information board allowed me to keep everyone up-to-date on my progress , stimulate interest and heighten awareness of my role as it developed . |
| 17 | The wind had taken more of my energy than it saved , and without the sail , the wheelbarrow was much easier to control . |
| 18 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 19 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 20 | I was just wondering if I could change the timetable of my visit but it is n't important … ’ |
| 21 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 22 | ‘ You blame me for returning to England because of my job but it was n't just that and it was n't all my fault . ’ |
| 23 | Get rid of my cough cos it |
| 24 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 25 | I do n't know what reasons brought you to me or whether they have any connection with certain events — I have my suspicions I 'll confess , but I accept it is n't any of my business unless it reaches a point where it outwardly affects me . |
| 26 | One way or another , we get to see most of their stuff before it gets Stateside . |
| 27 | When Vietnam got nasty , many bands were finally forced out of their apathy as it became apparent that things like conscription were bringing matters pretty close to home . |
| 28 | When Vietnam got nasty , many bands were finally forced out of their apathy as it became apparent that things like conscription were bringing matters pretty close to home . |
| 29 | In South Antrim , the constituency of the present writer , no satisfaction was received on the matter until an exasperated meeting of my own constituency party presented the Westite Official Unionists with an ultimatum that either ‘ UUUC ’ appear on the literature and posters of their candidate or it would present its own rival one . |
| 30 | Eventually Ryan appeased Neath by choosing more of their players but it made no difference : whatever kind of front five was chosen , static or mobile , Wales were beaten , and then when rugby league lucre had begun to attract an increasing number of his better players Ryan gave up the unequal struggle after the devastating defeat at Twickenham in 1990 . |