Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 2 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 3 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 4 | Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year . |
| 5 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 6 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 7 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 8 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 9 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 10 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 11 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 12 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 13 | Jimmy adjusted the gun so that he was holding it with both hands . |
| 14 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 16 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 17 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 18 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |
| 19 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 20 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |