Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 5 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 6 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 7 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |