Example sentences of "were [verb] it [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 4 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 5 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 6 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 7 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 8 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 9 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 10 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 11 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 12 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 13 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 14 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 17 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 18 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 19 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 20 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 21 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 22 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |