Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 2 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Seconds later , when the Plymouth came screaming around the bend , Manville was safely observing it from the inside of a record store window . |
| 8 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |