Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've only read Wuthering Heights of theirs as it happens , and I was n't too keen on parts of that . |
| 7 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Most single people enjoy living alone and make the most of it while it lasts . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We 've had no other reported sighting of it before it entered the Broad . |
| 17 | I managed to get a copy of it before it hits the shops . |
| 18 | probably get about three miles out er two or three miles of it before it runs out . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , we will not see anything of it since it happens in our daytime . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You might be able to some of it because it grows ever so easily you know . |
| 23 | The gun jumped , but she was n't in front of it when it went off . |
| 24 | But it must know what it aims to achieve and what will be demanded of it when it sends in its peacekeepers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Rosie lost sight of it when it disappeared behind a cardboard box and she turned her attention back to the door . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 30 | 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 . |