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 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |