Example sentences of "of it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily would be suitable ; and the fact of her aristocratic blood weighed with Paul ; one could always boast of it discreetly to colleagues , in the event . |
| 2 | Not the best of subjects to inject a little bit of humour but we did find er traces of it nevertheless . |
| 3 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 4 | It has n't been the most memorable of summers : let's hope the autumn brings more positive energy ( and not all of it chemically induced ) |
| 5 | But Labour wants to shove Northern Ireland out of it altogether . |
| 6 | The handling of the " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread " theme , though not wholly elegant , showed ambition , and the assumption that Clara was responsible for the dismissal of Higginbotham showed courtesy , though she would have preferred his name to be left out of it altogether . |
| 7 | Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical . |
| 8 | Just to be on the safe side , she kept Bridget out of it altogether . |
| 9 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 10 | bought it for the dog and about fifty quid of it altogether |
| 11 | I notice that we had two stations in East Oxford , whereas in fact this one left West Oxford out of it altogether . |
| 12 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 13 | REGARDING your article on fuel wastage in Belfast , I have come across two instances of it lately . |
| 14 | If she is very advanced in years and no longer interested in cooking , she may well be happy to stay out of it completely , apart from making the odd cup of tea or coffee , and be pleased to have her meals prepared for her . |
| 15 | He was cut out of it completely and he might be prepared to talk . ’ |
| 16 | Anger emanated from fitzAlan in waves , the force of it completely overwhelming her , even as the physical impact of that ruthless kiss stunned her into frozen immobility . |
| 17 | Mrs Frizzell digested this truth , and the import of it slowly became clear to her . |
| 18 | But then , with Matilda concentrating fiercely , one end of it slowly lifted up about an inch off the table-top . |
| 19 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 20 | It was the real danger , and it turned Eochaid cold to hear Thorfinn speak of it openly , as if it amused him . |
| 21 | This is that industrial output increased four-fold over the eighteenth century , home consumption of it three-fold and exports six-fold . |
| 22 | This was fair comment at the time ; some of it doubtless justified . |
| 23 | One is more likely to see examples of the results of it however . |
| 24 | We catch an echo of it however in that curiously possessive rather than patronizing way in which anthropologists are given to speaking of ‘ their people ’ ( just as the people sometimes speak of ‘ their anthropologist ’ ) . |
| 25 | As soon as he received it , the holy man who now looked like a scarecrow gave most of it away . |
| 26 | While sales were up to £20m last year ( from £15m in 1990 ) and operating profits were a very healthy £4m , interest of £3.4m payable on the debt wiped most of it away , leaving the company with a pre-tax profit of just £810,000 . |
| 27 | The rebuff is that , having painstakingly laid a firm foundation , I must , in all honesty , now kick part of it away by revealing that certain misguided authors and publishers ( especially the latter ) have unscrupulously omitted all the data we require , printing books without dates or any reference to previous editions . |
| 28 | The Troll 's vomit is sticky and semi-liquid , so it penetrates through armour easily and even dissolves part of it away . |
| 29 | He gripped the edge of the nearest inspection plate and ripped a quarter of it away . |
| 30 | I said he ought to give most of it away . |