Example sentences of "of it [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 You do n't have to spend a lot of money to look just nice looking I mean d' you know , er just you know nice appearing , clean appearing or something like that that will do and beauty most of it its come from inside .
2 As Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ I never hit a shot , even in practice , without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it my head . ’
3 From the sound of it my father could n't have spoken to him for very long , or he would have recognised his son 's voice .
4 well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third
5 The father is downstairs and by the sound of it your husband , and my dear father , has just killed him . ’
6 But by the sound of it your brothers are a hale and hearty pair .
7 Fortunately , of course , Heiton knew every inch of the ground hereabouts , much of it his own property , and so could advise .
8 Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child .
9 So Schuler accepted it , knowing that by the end of it his prospects of regaining an All Black place might have disappeared .
10 Not only had he paid out money , some of it his own , but he had forgone almost a month of lunches with Mrs Tobias in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ .
11 Alexei found himself recalling events from his childhood — the dimly understood shifts of influence from one family to another , his mother the niece of the Emperor , his father a commoner and always absent on the Imperial service — and almost before he was aware of it his hand had risen to the gold caste mark on his cheek .
12 On the face of it his life centred around business of one sort or another , his own and the council 's .
13 Sir Francis Child was the banker to William and Mary and even had to arrange to provide jewellery , some of it his own and his wife 's , for the great double Coronation .
14 During the war his home had been far away from bombs and at the end of it his father had come safely back .
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