Example sentences of "of it and " in BNC.

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1 It 's pretty lightweight , most of it and what is n't lightweight is salacious , so I would n't think you 'd find much to stimulate you there , but you could try .
2 Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home .
3 She took hold of it and put it down on the floor .
4 If you give yourself a shake , change your seating position slightly , open the clear vision panel for some fresh air , change hands on the stick for a few moments and have a sweet or drink , you can snap out of it and start to work normally again .
5 Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered .
6 So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO .
7 ‘ Maybe the party will be able to get some money out of it and we will be able to prostitute ourselves a little bit more .
8 When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures .
9 The Club , however , made the best of it and handed the Station Commander RAF Gatow a cheque for DM10,000 that was to be split between SSAFA and RAFA .
10 He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven .
11 I also believe that the size of it and the rate at which it is growing indicates the use of the central organising function of the state ( which is one characteristic of a social service ) .
12 Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator .
13 I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone .
14 What I tried to teach people was that if we did n't increase the added value , but took more of it and put it in our pockets , the only place we could take it from was the glass marked reinvestment and that makes people unemployed quicker than anything — and permanently .
15 When the three appeared for school they were wary of her at first but she was able to summon sufficient energy to disguise her lack of it and they were completely at ease before they left for school .
16 Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored .
17 I stand in front of it and look up at the lights .
18 There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree .
19 All there is , is this colour and more of it and more of it .
20 They drag what they find into the tunnel , eat some of it and deposit the rest , which then rots and helps to feed the plants .
21 ‘ We 'll have to snap him out of it and keep him to the exercises or he 'll ruin himself . ’
22 If I 'm going to spend several hundred pounds on an outfit , I make sure I get real value out of it and will wear it a lot .
23 Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days .
24 Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days .
25 Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days .
26 ‘ I remember to this day coming out after tea at Jo'burg , 1948-49 , going down on to the ground with Len ; vast crowd , and this fellow comes out of it and says ‘ only 30 more for the record , boys ’ .
27 In fact , it was coming back from the Tadcaster job that the old Atlas van that we had , blew up — the big ends just blew out of it and we had to dump it there and go .
28 I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media .
29 I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ .
30 Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song .
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