Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 2 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 3 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 4 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 5 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 6 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 7 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 8 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 9 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 10 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 11 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 12 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 13 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 14 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 15 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 16 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 17 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 18 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 19 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 20 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 21 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |
| 22 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 23 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |
| 24 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 25 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |
| 26 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |