Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 5 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 6 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 7 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |