Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 2 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 3 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 4 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 5 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 6 | At luncheon , Bradbury 's Alsatian dog was found to have retrieved a boot of a German airman and was chewing it under the table . |
| 7 | On the steps of the stadium someone had erected a red hammer-and-sickle flag and was waving it towards the crowd and the few media people present . |
| 8 | He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet . |