Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " 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 . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 10 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 11 | 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 . |