Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] 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 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 3 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 4 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 5 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 10 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 11 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 19 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 22 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 23 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 24 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 26 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 27 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |