Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago there were over two hundred kidnappings there — the pickings were rich along the Costa Smeralda for those who were sticking it out on the hills above — but last year there were only three , and one of those a complete failure . |
| 2 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 3 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 4 | It was fiat and broad , and a crowd of sweating men on the deck were poling it upstream amongst the bird-filled islets . |
| 5 | We telephoned from our mobile to theirs — probably at a combined speed of 100mph going away from each other — and it was indeed us who were hotfooting it away from the airport . |
| 6 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 7 | I was a bit worried when we were trying it on with the passes . |
| 8 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 9 | Here he is now , cast in cement , somewhat undersized Gibson slung around him , coloured in garish as the statue , showing dully familiar images — Bob , Bunny and Peter in Wailing Wailers suits , Bob at the Peace Concert in 1978 , linking the hands of opposing politicians whose supporters were shooting it out on the streets . |
| 10 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 11 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 12 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 13 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 14 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 15 | ‘ Pumlumon was directing it straight at the giants , ’ said Caspar . |
| 16 | I was holding it lightly against the glass of the door at an angle where the steel-jacketed slugs would plough straight into the fat of his abdomen . |
| 17 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 18 | Now if you 'd got grudge against the bloke who was taking it off in the shop , in the farmyard , after when you got back home , of course you had to come I mean they did n't stick it in the field , like they do now . |
| 19 | The custodian was taking it back to the clubhouse area , where it would be needed for the final ceremony in about an hour 's time . |
| 20 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 21 | Oak Marketing realised the solution to selling Brewking was to take it direct to the people and explain its process face to face . |
| 22 | He had made his right hand into a fist and was jabbing it up at the sky , feinting in the direction of the falling missile . |