Example sentences of "of it i " in BNC.
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1 | My full interview seemed to go reasonably smoothly so at the end of it I asked how long would it take for my money to come through . |
2 | we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable . |
3 | I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again . |
4 | Looking back I regard it all as fun and I 'm not embarrassed by any of it I was happy to get where I was . ’ |
5 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
6 | Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere . |
7 | Eighty per cent of it I duck , but people look at the other 20 per cent you do and because it is 50 per cent more than others do , it appears , as you say , that you are a self-promoter . ’ |
8 | ‘ Come to think of it I 'd have given you the oranges even if you 'd said no . ’ |
9 | April came and by the end of it I felt exceedingly well . |
10 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
11 | I must find him before I sail home , and come to think of it I 'll need to fix the boat too ! |
12 | Now I am free , Lee thought — but in the thinking of it I am no longer so . |
13 | I enjoyed what little of it I could manage , though . |
14 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
15 | ‘ I am very sad , ’ he wrote to me , ‘ about the disgraceful way you have been treated by the Seniors , and because of it I have informed the captain I am resigning . ’ |
16 | Some of it I battered down backwards , having had visions of leaving and eyeball dangling on a branch like a festive light . |
17 | But looking at some still pictures of it I reckon I made a mistake early on which could have denied ‘ Obbo ’ of scoring a more orthodox try . |
18 | I might start off the day with lots of intentions and by the end of it I 'm so fagged out I just collapse . |
19 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
20 | The more of it I hear , the more I realise that metal music is unparodiable . |
21 | declared , ‘ It has long been a rule well established ( the origin of it I do not recollect ) that you can not get discovery except from a party to your action . |
22 | And the long and the short of it I 'm afraid is , your mother 's gone . ’ |
23 | Erm , I mean headquarters as from adminis , the administrative erm part of it I do n't know whether you saw the Barnardos This is Your Life lady |
24 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
25 | The members of it I knew had all sorts of behaviour , public and private . |
26 | And if I can not rid myself of it I will just have to go into the service and begin to root out the cause . |
27 | And er part of it I think was because during the daytime you did n't see them very much , and at nighttime y you know they they would be obviously around erm going to blues parties and things like that . |
28 | At the first sign of it I 'll threaten to pull out altogether . |
29 | Whether he eat any of it I do n't know ! |
30 | On the other hand , now I come to think of it I ca n't see why they should go round clanking chains . |