Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 2 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 3 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 4 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 5 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 6 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 7 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 8 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 9 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 10 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
| 11 | er my Lord it was n't , I was n't raising it for the purpose of your Lordship mentioned , er namely er er about er contingency fund , though indeed will be entitled to that , I raised a question of the minute , the board minute , to do with the concerned with Mr rest of the meeting about the placement |
| 12 | Seconds later , when the Plymouth came screaming around the bend , Manville was safely observing it from the inside of a record store window . |
| 13 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |