Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] of it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of these queries , or some of it stems from the fact that we 're also conscious of the fact that we ca n't keep passing things to Gary when he 's only got one person |
| 2 | An entry in the charges register disclosed that it was subject to restrictive covenants imposed by a deed of 1883 but did not reveal what those covenants were , because on first registration neither the deed nor a copy or abstract of it had been produced . |
| 3 | Following the opening of the Gloucester-Berkely canal in 1827 , large amounts of grain were transhipped at Gloucester and some of it sent via the Stroudwater Canal to his mills in the Stroud area . |
| 4 | And power which is generated there goes to heat and light the city of Niagara , and some of it goes to cook the dinners in the city of Toronto , and some of it heats the homes in the city of Buffalo . |
| 5 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 6 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 7 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 8 | The light from the torch hits a special reflective layer behind the retina , known as the tapetum , and some of it bounces back out again . |
| 9 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 10 | And some of it 's gone up alright , but he put a couple of strips up last night and it all bubbled and then he I heard him this morning shwooh ! |
| 11 | And power which is generated there goes to heat and light the city of Niagara , and some of it goes to cook the dinners in the city of Toronto , and some of it heats the homes in the city of Buffalo . |
| 12 | The food — chicken , brochettes , couscous — comes on a plate and half of it stays there . |
| 13 | They 're quite fun and I 've quite a lot of that up , and I 've got another board on , half of it 's and half of it sleep . |
| 14 | As a boy , much of the Bible puzzled and disturbed me , it was read daily in chapel and much of it seemed astonishingly unchristian . |
| 15 | So it varies from nothing to a lot of involvement , and much of it depends on the song . |
| 16 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 17 | But they , and many other organisations throughout society , also have the benefit of strongly supportive national policies and of state guaranteed funds on a scale that is not entirely incommensurate with the task of changing health determining habits : for a population the size of England 's , the total yearly Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 's budget is equivalent to around £140 million , and much of it goes to the voluntary sector . |
| 18 | The latter dates from the eighteenth century but S. Michael was built in the eleventh century and much of it survives . |
| 19 | The CAB has developed considerable skill in training , as this chapter has demonstrated , and much of it has relevance outside the CAB as well as inside . |
| 20 | Criticism of the team and its management has been stinging through the season and much of it has come from former players . |
| 21 | I dampen more towels and scrub the whole of my legs and feet , though I can not remove it all , and much of it smears into my skin , giving it a pinkish tint . |
| 22 | Sir Christopher said : ‘ The treaty is far from perfect and much of it concerns issues that should be debated more thoroughly . |
| 23 | Given that on average each Spaniard eats 66 pounds of fish and seafood a year , and much of it comes from Galicia , you 'd expect to see a lot there . |
| 24 | How do you think I feel when I bring home three hundred a twenty quid a week , and all of it goes on fucking bills ! |
| 25 | All that destructive force — and all of it directed towards her . |
| 26 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 27 | A whole pine forest produces so much pollen that ponds become covered with curds of it — and all of it wasted . |
| 28 | And all of it waiting . |
| 29 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 30 | PERSONAL VIEW FM : the long and short of it exposed at last |