Example sentences of "it [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the tsar-reformer 's great achievements was the foundation of the Russian navy , much of it consisting of wooden galleys propelled by the collective muscle-power of conscript or convict oarsmen . |
| 2 | Nowhere in one leading textbook is it treated of as a defence . |
| 3 | Still , it staves of the risk of an epileptic fit . |
| 4 | But it was a book about hierarchy , and that is why it became of interest to Carolingian bishops , as there is evidence that within a decade it did . |
| 5 | Since the product bore her name , it became of paramount importance to her to maintain an image of which she approved . |
| 6 | The record of this government , conviction-inspired though it thinks of itself as being , is replete with pragmatic compromise of every kind . |
| 7 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 8 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 9 | The House of Commons has the right to say first what it thinks of a Bill . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , since 1915 other theories of gravity have been advanced , though the great majority of scientists today accept Einstein 's General Theory and the explanation that it offers of Mercury 's precession . |
| 11 | It has appeared to me , through all the seclusion of my life & the narrow experience it admitted of , that in nothing , men — & women too ! — were so apt to mistake their own feelings , as in this one thing . |
| 12 | It smelled of wine dregs , damp soot , and whitewash . |
| 13 | It smelled of horses . |
| 14 | It smelled of petrol and TCP . |
| 15 | Rules was decorated like a Victorian library ; it smelled of superior malt whiskies and very old leather . |
| 16 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 17 | Or she could say that Derek had always had charming manners and was in the habit of commending ladies on their scent , even if it smelled of Alexandrian sewers , and sound as though she had lost something worth keeping — and inevitably regretful . |
| 18 | It smelled of wood and a sort of quite pleasant mustiness . |
| 19 | It smelled of petrol . |
| 20 | It smelled of hot cake rising in the oven . |
| 21 | It smelled of Thérèse 's stale breath and sweat . |
| 22 | It smelled of shellfish , newsprint , disinfectant — and the lime-encrusted urinal at the far end . |
| 23 | Re-entering the cabin , she noticed how it smelled of them , of the mingled scents of their bodies , of the soaps they used , and the sweet , musky afterglow of love . |
| 24 | Too often it smelled of boiled cabbage and steamed fish . |
| 25 | Inside it smelled of timber and peat and wood-shavings . |
| 26 | It smelled of rotten straw , damp and an overpowering stench that caught in her throat , almost choking her . |
| 27 | It smelled of expensive cologne , and her skin tingled as he turned his head , his sensuous mouth drifting warmly , dangerously close to her cheek . |
| 28 | Ludens , who had been watching this face attentively for some time , could now however read in it signs of care , a wrinkling of the brow , not marked exactly in any lines of flesh but as a cloud poised , the mouth and eyes narrowing as in thought or pain , the hints of a perhaps imminent older face . |
| 29 | ‘ Have some of my hock : it tastes of furniture polish . ’ |
| 30 | I spoon some health and vitality into my mouth ; it tastes of sawdust . |