Example sentences of "was [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 2 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 3 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 4 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 5 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 6 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 7 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 8 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 9 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 10 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 11 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 12 | 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 . |