Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly in the Middle East the Americans , while valuing the British presence ( notably the base at Suez ) , were looking beyond it to a more comprehensive defence system . |
| 2 | We were looking across it at a slice-shaped building , calcined with pollution . |
| 3 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 4 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 5 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 6 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 7 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 8 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 9 | We were talking about it on the way back . |
| 10 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |
| 11 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 12 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 13 | They was looking for it on a list . |
| 14 | She had her back to the entrance of the garden and was looking across it at a small orchard whose fruit never found its way to the rector 's table , always being pilfered by the small street arabs of the district . |
| 15 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 16 | I have in fact si since seeing this sent her a copy of the paper I put to this meeting , erm , having seen that , because I did n't know that she was waiting for it to the commentary with . |
| 17 | Harley was coming into it as an early-season form horse and was therefore in the news , and now his caddie had been murdered so he was very much in the news . |
| 18 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 19 | Now we may never know what secrets it was towing with it in the clouds . |
| 20 | At the far end of the yard the Duke had planted his branch in the ground and was sitting under it like a potentate . |