Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 2 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 3 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 4 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 5 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 6 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 8 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 9 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 10 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 11 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 12 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 13 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 14 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 16 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 17 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 18 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 19 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 20 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 21 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 22 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 23 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 24 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 25 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 26 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 29 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 30 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |