Example sentences of "the course [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of it Edward Lucas , a BBC Prague correspondent , asked Havel directly if he wanted to be president . |
| 2 | The ending of the novel is too pat and contrived , but in the course of it Tabucchi has created an India which is constantly surprising and challenging to the European traveller/narrator/reader without ever allowing its mysticism or its exoticism to run away with it , for the sub-continent is also an ironically observed tourists ' India of hotels , buses , taxis , sights and restaurants . |
| 3 | Cilla Black wo n't speak to me to this day because when I was a critic , I wrote a very warm piece about her , but during the course of it , I said , ‘ She 's quite good-looking , but she does have the nose of a rather careful boxer . ’ |
| 4 | It was significant because during the course of it two things became very plain to Anna . |
| 5 | In the course of it there was serious coal discussion . |
| 6 | Nor is it , unless applied by someone brave enough to face up to all the disturbing hypotheses that can arise in the course of it . |
| 7 | This struggle , and the Greek unity half achieved in the course of it , must have been in the programmatist 's mind ; but the project was paid for out of spoils from the conquest of one Greek city by another , and the golden shield proudly crowning the newly finished temple was set there to celebrate an early clash in the fatal hostility of Athens and Sparta which was to culminate in the Peloponnesian war and the ruin of Greece . |
| 8 | The work was carried out between 1698 and 1704 , and during the course of it Francis settled in the town , with which , as ‘ Smith of Warwick ’ , he is particularly associated . |
| 9 | An outbreak of strife in Northumbria would suit Harold very well , I imagine , especially if Siward got himself killed in the course of it . |
| 10 | Not only did it fail to achieve all the gains on which it seemed to be calculating in embarking on the assault , but it sustained one particularly debilitating blow in the course of it . |
| 11 | Mr Miller said : ‘ The violence was renewed and during the course of it Mr Wray was struck on the side of his face by Youngs who had in his hand a heavy hammer . ’ |
| 12 | Best wishes for the year — I hope to meet many of you personally in the course of it . |