Example sentences of "of [pron] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er never asked about full names er of everyone whether it be yourself , the husband or the kids the full names . |
| 2 | ‘ No — it 's just Christmas — a family get-together , you know — it seems to take more out of me than it used to — so I thought I 'd come and have a quiet minute or two with you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After that I made a habit of sending Timmy upstairs ahead of me when it 's time to go to bed . |
| 5 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 6 | The big grey monster sat in front of me and it looked at me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 11 | It may be so , but diplomatic calculation also would have persuaded both of them that it was better if Alice did not marry an Angevin . |
| 12 | While they lived in la Sologne it never occurred to either of them that it was even possible for people like themselves to study music and become professional musicians . |
| 13 | It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance . |
| 14 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They could see their pals being shot down in front of them but it made no difference . |
| 17 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 18 | I never read any of them although it was not for want of trying . |
| 19 | Apart from anything else you ca n't trust half of them because it all goes into interviews . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps it appealed to the rest of them because it 's very fast . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They run up and down the organisation carrying messages and information and in the past we 've had lots of them because it was the only way of passing information . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Bringing her mind back to the keys she suggested having a photograph taken so that there would be a record of them if it was ever needed . |
| 24 | She rapped on his door , swung it open and stood in the doorway , not trusting either of them if it was shut . |
| 25 | a lot of them if it is n't sorted out have them the no , what do you call them the adenoids |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ We will see enough of them as it is . |
| 28 | The McGuires had another son and daughter , Hugh and Jacobina , but little is known of them and it is presumed that they both died young . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |