Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 2 | Having obtained a fairly comprehensive view of the farm situation in Great Britain as it relates to training an attempt was made to compare it with the position in Europe . |
| 3 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 4 | In the 16th century , an east wing was added to replace the earlier parlour , while in the 17th century a kitchen wing was built to balance it to the west . |
| 5 | For a moment , Implexion thought she meant their affair and was attempting to push it into the realms of firm commitment . |
| 6 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 7 | I was going to write it on the board for you |
| 8 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 9 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 10 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 11 | When an hour later she did surface , she knew at once that there was no way she was going to make it to the office on time . |
| 12 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 14 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
| 15 | His invention of photogenic drawing dated back four years earlier but he was spurred to bring it to the attention of the scientific world by the announcement by the Frenchman Daguerre of his revolutionary invention , the Daguerreotype . |
| 16 | Minutes after appearing before a television crew to defend a jockey 's right to have the whip in his armoury , Steve Cauthen was forced to use it aboard the short-head winner . |
| 17 | He was trying to move it off the path . |
| 18 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 19 | But the Prince was determined to get it to the finishing line . |
| 20 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |