Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 2 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 3 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 4 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 6 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 7 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 8 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 9 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |
| 10 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 11 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |