Example sentences of "and [adj] of it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The food — chicken , brochettes , couscous — comes on a plate and half of it stays there . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As a boy , much of the Bible puzzled and disturbed me , it was read daily in chapel and much of it seemed astonishingly unchristian . |
| 13 | So it varies from nothing to a lot of involvement , and much of it depends on the song . |
| 14 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The latter dates from the eighteenth century but S. Michael was built in the eleventh century and much of it survives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Criticism of the team and its management has been stinging through the season and much of it has come from former players . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sir Christopher said : ‘ The treaty is far from perfect and much of it concerns issues that should be debated more thoroughly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | All that destructive force — and all of it directed towards her . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A whole pine forest produces so much pollen that ponds become covered with curds of it — and all of it wasted . |
| 26 | And all of it waiting . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | PERSONAL VIEW FM : the long and short of it exposed at last |
| 29 | A moment 's reflection shows how much the confidence of the adolescent in the learning process depends upon the possibility of success , and enough of it to give " reinforcement " . |
| 30 | Research and writing on this subject has concentrated almost exclusively on abuse by family members and most of it occurs in the domestic setting . |