Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been using it for the Open .
2 She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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