Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 3 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 4 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 5 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 6 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 7 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 8 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 9 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |