Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
3 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
4 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
5 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
6 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
7 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
8 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
9 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
10 | Out of Surbiton , with an accent that veered between Sydney — which was where many people located him — and outer London , his initial work on the magazine had been selling it on the streets . |