Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 2 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 3 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 4 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 5 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 6 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 7 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 8 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 9 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 10 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 11 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |
| 12 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
| 13 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |
| 14 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 15 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 16 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 17 | One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church . |
| 18 | Dean was making it as a star before Hopper was . |
| 19 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 20 | My reaction — rather cowardly — was to shove it in a drawer and try to forget it . |
| 21 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |