Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 2 | I lost half of my friends when it happened |
| 3 | Eventually Ryan appeased Neath by choosing more of their players but it made no difference : whatever kind of front five was chosen , static or mobile , Wales were beaten , and then when rugby league lucre had begun to attract an increasing number of his better players Ryan gave up the unequal struggle after the devastating defeat at Twickenham in 1990 . |
| 4 | One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’ |
| 5 | But frequently they appear to have taken leave of their senses when it comes to choosing the right sort of women . |
| 6 | Despite the availability of consumer magazines like Which ? people are still not always sure of their rights when it comes to the purchase , or indeed the sale , of goods . |
| 7 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 8 | From some different world , she heard the bird 's song cease abruptly in mid-trill , and the startled flutter of its wings as it took flight , followed by the soft rustle of a breeze through the bushes . |
| 9 | Tommaso recognised its badger markings and the flap of its wings as it climbed ; he stuck the gun to his eye , tracked the bird , and fired ; the plover 's wings flew back and spread fanwise , in a cancan of swirling feathers , then it spun and came hurtling down . |
| 10 | The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing , obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one , or tie-in sales , no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing ( no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself ) , and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements ( suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product , and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection ) . |
| 11 | The BM can flog off the contents of its cellars if it needs money . |
| 12 | BREWER and retailer Whitbread has begun advising more than 1,000 of its tenants that it has arranged deals to lease their pubs to a string of brewers and pub groups as part of a move to comply with the Government 's beer orders . |
| 13 | The straightforward application of this figure implies that a drawing office could get rid of two-thirds of its draughtsmen if it installed a CAD system . |
| 14 | But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia . |
| 15 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 16 | It is worth noting that the Compact will not be fulfilling all of its objectives if it does not regularly ask participating companies to contribute to a wide variety of activities in the Compact schools . |
| 17 | They were constructing a series of weirs upstream , so they had told her at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , which would eventually control this annual predator , but for this year , at least , it surged down irresistibly as ever , biting acres out of its banks as it cornered , like a ferocious animal frustrated . |
| 18 | The Trust will be able to dispose of its assets as it thinks appropriate . |
| 19 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 20 | The National Graphical Association incurred four contempt fines totalling £675,000 and eventual sequestration of its funds before it called off its illegal picketing ( under the 1980 Act ) against Mr Eddie Shah 's publishing company in 1983 . |
| 21 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 22 | THE body of a 26-year-old man who was apparently buried alive while trying to rescue one of his terriers when it became trapped down a hole , has been found on a Welsh mountainside . |
| 23 | All the time she was conscious of his eyes on her lips , her teeth , the way her mouth closed over the small cake , touching the tips of his fingers as it did so . |
| 24 | ‘ More Than One Photography ’ ( on at the museum until 9 August ) is the result of his efforts and it consists of about sixty works by artists of all disciplines ( including ‘ pure ’ photographers who present their work non-traditionally ) . |
| 25 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 26 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 27 | I should do really got a clot in one of his legs as it means and went down the other one and got ta take it out , through smoking |
| 28 | The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned . |
| 29 | Well Sandy , we 've only looked at a few of the things in your shed and a very few of your photographs but it 's been fascinating . |