Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 4 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 7 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 8 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 9 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 10 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 12 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 13 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 14 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 15 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 16 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 17 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 18 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |
| 19 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 20 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 21 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 22 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 23 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 24 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 25 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 26 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 27 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |
| 28 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 29 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 30 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |