Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] [art] " 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 cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 3 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 4 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 5 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 6 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 7 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 13 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 14 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 15 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 16 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 17 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 18 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 19 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 20 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 21 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 22 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 23 | " 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 . " |
| 24 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 25 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 30 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |