Sentence examples for a block of it from inspiring English sources

A bolt hit the obelisk last year, causing a block of it to tumble.

Fans who did not go to the ballroom flocked to the dozen businesses within half a block of it, including the Jang Shoo Chon restaurant, where a slightly older crowd was watching the game while dining on elaborate Korean breakfast offerings — plates of banchan and jigae stew.

If a developer such as Taylor Wimpey sells the freehold of a block of flats, it has to offer the leasees a right of first refusal.

When I saw the Russian play Ladybird there, walking in was like entering a block of flats – it even smelled horrible.

Statoil is walking away from a block of leases it has held in the remote Chukchi Sea off Alaska, announcing this week that the area is "no longer considered competitive".

The problem is, it is impossible to know where exactly the train is within a block of track, so it has to be assumed when coordinating traffic flow that the train is at the beginning of a block.

He's a block of wood, but it's like being with a grown-up man, rather than trying to entertain a schoolboy.

"You're looking at a block of granite when it comes to the issues," he replied.

Maybe it was when I watched my 2-year-old at the park try to "swipe" a block of wood, thinking it was like an "iPad".

If your cave runs into a dead end, you can place a minecart with a block of TNT over it.

Prevent the wheel on the other side of the trailer from moving by putting a block of wood behind it.