Example sentences of "was [verb] it [prep] [art] [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 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 6 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 7 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 13 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 14 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 16 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 17 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 18 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 19 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 23 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |
| 24 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |