Example sentences of "of [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 2 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 3 | I 've got the Highway Code in front of me and it says that at 30 miles an hour the stopping distance is 75 foot . |
| 4 | The big grey monster sat in front of me and it looked at me . |
| 5 | At the moment we 're er just sorting out the price of things , we think it will be available at around about ninety nine pounds and that will include your travel there , your hotel accommodation and I 've got the leaflet of the hotel in front of me and it looks pretty spectacular actually . |
| 6 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 7 | They could see their pals being shot down in front of them but it made no difference . |
| 8 | They 're not actually prepared to go in to diagnosing dementia which I think is very wise of them but it means that you could then get into a very interesting discussion about whether we 're talking about people with dementia or about people who are simply confused . |
| 9 | However , it is important for the designer to be aware of the nature and extent of the possibilities that are in principle available so that he may be able to exploit some of them when it seems appropriate . |
| 10 | Many of the small boats which usually travelled its waters were moored for the night and The Sandhopper passed a number of them as it made its way up river . |
| 11 | The legendary Miller ski , made in the USA , was one of them and it became a rather hot seller in the upmarket ski boutiques of London . |
| 12 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 13 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 14 | I 've only read Wuthering Heights of theirs as it happens , and I was n't too keen on parts of that . |
| 15 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 16 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 17 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 18 | It must be an a , because he , he , he , he said he 'd got chance of one but it did whacking great six inch er sixteen inch wheels on ! |
| 19 | Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night . |
| 20 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |
| 21 | Right on top of him and it turned round and smacked |
| 22 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 23 | ‘ Most single people enjoy living alone and make the most of it while it lasts . ’ |
| 24 | It added : ‘ On average water services cost each household 46p a day for delivering 840 pints of water and safely disposing of it after it has been used . |
| 25 | You or any member of your party may cancel you booking , or part of it once it has been confirmed , but the instructions will only be valid if in writing and signed by the person who signed the Booking Form . |
| 26 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |
| 27 | If a negative thought is about to enter your mind try to become aware of it before it has had time to take root in your unconscious and put it aside , replacing it with a positive thought . |
| 28 | We 've had no other reported sighting of it before it entered the Broad . |
| 29 | I managed to get a copy of it before it hits the shops . |
| 30 | probably get about three miles out er two or three miles of it before it runs out . |