Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] it in [art] " in BNC.

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1	I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is .
2	It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women .
3	" 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 . "
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know .
7	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 .
8	‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day .
9	They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on .
10	In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it .
11	But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent .

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