Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 2 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 3 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 4 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 5 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 7 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 8 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 9 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 10 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 11 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 12 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 13 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 14 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 15 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 16 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 17 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 18 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 19 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 20 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 21 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 22 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 23 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |
| 24 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 25 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 26 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 27 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 28 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 29 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 30 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |