Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 5 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 6 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |
| 16 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |