Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were very relaxed and Skip conveys the feeling that they were treating it more as a cruise than a race . |
| 2 | It was fiat and broad , and a crowd of sweating men on the deck were poling it upstream amongst the bird-filled islets . |
| 3 | We telephoned from our mobile to theirs — probably at a combined speed of 100mph going away from each other — and it was indeed us who were hotfooting it away from the airport . |
| 4 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 5 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Pumlumon was directing it straight at the giants , ’ said Caspar . |
| 7 | I was holding it lightly against the glass of the door at an angle where the steel-jacketed slugs would plough straight into the fat of his abdomen . |
| 8 | I always keep a bottle in my desk drawer , but this character was putting it away on an industrial scale . |
| 9 | Someone had dropped jelly on an expensive rug and she was attacking it forcefully with a brush to relieve her feelings when the bristles came in contact with a pair of smart leather shoes . |