Example sentences of "were [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago there were over two hundred kidnappings there — the pickings were rich along the Costa Smeralda for those who were sticking it out on the hills above — but last year there were only three , and one of those a complete failure . |
| 2 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 3 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 4 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 5 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 6 | I was a bit worried when we were trying it on with the passes . |
| 7 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 8 | They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date . |
| 9 | Here he is now , cast in cement , somewhat undersized Gibson slung around him , coloured in garish as the statue , showing dully familiar images — Bob , Bunny and Peter in Wailing Wailers suits , Bob at the Peace Concert in 1978 , linking the hands of opposing politicians whose supporters were shooting it out on the streets . |