Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were to continue to dominate it until the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | You could n't be alone with your tragedy , you were expected to bring it into the living-room with you , as the others brought their newspapers , knitting , homework . |
| 3 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 4 | And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made . |
| 5 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 6 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 7 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 8 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 9 | Having obtained a fairly comprehensive view of the farm situation in Great Britain as it relates to training an attempt was made to compare it with the position in Europe . |
| 10 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 11 | In the 16th century , an east wing was added to replace the earlier parlour , while in the 17th century a kitchen wing was built to balance it to the west . |
| 12 | For a moment , Implexion thought she meant their affair and was attempting to push it into the realms of firm commitment . |
| 13 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 14 | I was going to write it on the board for you |
| 15 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 16 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 17 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 18 | When an hour later she did surface , she knew at once that there was no way she was going to make it to the office on time . |
| 19 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 21 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
| 22 | His invention of photogenic drawing dated back four years earlier but he was spurred to bring it to the attention of the scientific world by the announcement by the Frenchman Daguerre of his revolutionary invention , the Daguerreotype . |
| 23 | Minutes after appearing before a television crew to defend a jockey 's right to have the whip in his armoury , Steve Cauthen was forced to use it aboard the short-head winner . |
| 24 | He was trying to move it off the path . |
| 25 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 26 | But the Prince was determined to get it to the finishing line . |
| 27 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |