Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] it [vb -s] " 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 've got the Highway Code in front of me and it says that at 30 miles an hour the stopping distance is 75 foot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 've only read Wuthering Heights of theirs as it happens , and I was n't too keen on parts of that . |
| 8 | ‘ Most single people enjoy living alone and make the most of it while it lasts . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I managed to get a copy of it before it hits the shops . |
| 13 | probably get about three miles out er two or three miles of it before it runs out . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , we will not see anything of it since it happens in our daytime . |
| 15 | There 's a follow-up series on a Sunday evening now called king of something , king of ca n't think of the name , ca n't remember the name of it but it starts this Sunday evening at nine o'clock |
| 16 | Well there 's the fact that he might have borrowed the money for a ten million pound project , and he ca n't have a use of it because it 's named and he 's paying interest |
| 17 | The Selby approach seems to me to be er look at the land that is allocated which amounts to approximately a hundred hectares in the district and discount a great deal of it because it 's constrained in some way or another , and I 'll come back to those constraints later . |
| 18 | You might be able to some of it because it grows ever so easily you know . |
| 19 | But it must know what it aims to achieve and what will be demanded of it when it sends in its peacekeepers . |
| 20 | Explain what 's in your mind and ask whether they 'd be interested in helping start it or being a part of it when it gets going . |
| 21 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 22 | However , as is generally the case with most benefits hard won from the state , once implemented the recipients unite in defence of it when it appears to be under threat . |
| 23 | The Land Rover will go easily through 9 or 10 inches of snow , but unless deeper snow is well packed , then the vehicle will not drive up on top of it and it builds up underneath bringing you to a halt . |
| 24 | Supposing a fitter leaves the oil plug out of the car , there 's a leak , the oil drains out of it and it causes some damage , but that damage does n't appear until a thousand/two thousand miles later , are you going to exclude that or cover it ? |
| 25 | Yes you just write over the top , sort of write over the top of it and it raises off |
| 26 | He went into motor racing for the fun of it and it seems unlikely that he ever took it as seriously as others thought it should be taken . |
| 27 | Oh I 've had enough of it and it has n't even |
| 28 | The wood fibres are blown apart , but remain glued together at many individual points by the set resin , or connected by viscous strings of it if it has not quite set . |
| 29 | 2 , and we shall merely summarize the most important physical aspect of it as it affects relaxation phenomena , namely the time-temperature superposition principle and its relation to free volume ( the so-called WLF relation ) . |
| 30 | So I would prefer to let you be the judge of it as it stands today . |