Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] it in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 3 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 4 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 5 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 6 | Now we may never know what secrets it was towing with it in the clouds . |
| 7 | This passage haunted Eliot who was to quote from it in the original title of Poems , 1920 , as well as in Ash-Wednesday . |