Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 2 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 3 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 4 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 5 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |