Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 2 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 3 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 4 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 5 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 6 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 7 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |