Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 2 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 3 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 4 | Conservative Republicans like Maura and Alcalá Zamora , and even some individuals on the left , recognized the desirability of a modus vivendi between the Church and the Republic , and of the latter 's attracting to it the Catholic sectors of the urban middle class and peasantry . |
| 5 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 6 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 7 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 8 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 9 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |