Example sentences of "of [pron] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rapped on his door , swung it open and stood in the doorway , not trusting either of them if it was shut . |
| 2 | The McGuires had another son and daughter , Hugh and Jacobina , but little is known of them and it is presumed that they both died young . |
| 3 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 4 | Simple things like the rain on the window pane , the cat mewing to come in or the noise of a bus which could be on top of you before it is seen . |
| 5 | Scepticism is the familiar name given to the appropriateness of doubting the reliability of something until it is proved beyond shadow of doubt . |
| 6 | Poor Maxine had such a low opinion of herself that it was going to be necessary to build up her confidence in general , so that she would then be able to play a part in her own treatment . |
| 7 | IBM Corp reckons that it is so vital to its future to gain possession of it that it is betting the company on making a success of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll have to get a photo of it when it 's finished , ’ Ian Jones said as he finished the meal of fish , salad and chips that Belinda had prepared as soon as she arrived . |
| 9 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |
| 10 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 11 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 12 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 13 | This is a personal war for each one of us and it 's going on inside us all the time . |
| 14 | That 's how much that would be your share if we shared six pizzas between two of us and it 's going to be the same as I said when i said well you share with your mum and Natalie . |
| 15 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |