Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 3 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 4 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 6 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 7 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 8 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 9 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 10 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 12 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 13 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |
| 14 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |
| 15 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 16 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |
| 17 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 18 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |