Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 6 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 7 | " 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 . " |
| 8 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 9 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 14 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 15 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 16 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 17 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 18 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 19 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 20 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 21 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 25 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |