Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 2 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 3 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 5 | " 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 . " |
| 6 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 7 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 11 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 14 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 16 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 17 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 18 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 19 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 20 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |