Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were pushing it east , towards the City . |
| 2 | After a little tense silence that made it seem as though the very air were holding it breath , he said very evenly , and with dangerous softness . |
| 3 | Eventually the name was transferred , not least because the Spanish were calling it pina . |
| 4 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |
| 5 | She asked it you were saying it Lynne and Melanie as though it was a statement of a fact . |
| 6 | said it was their lot , their friends that were doing it Chris , we did n't say they were going . |
| 7 | By the time we were drinking it Mum had calmed down considerably . |
| 8 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 9 | Suppose he were to think it Auguste 's own choice ? |
| 10 | This was to give it movement and life and to ensure that the focus of attention was never blurred tor the audience . |
| 11 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 12 | The Wehrmachtfahrkahrte was issued it Mistelback to Wien Ost on the 26th November 1938 , on what was once the Austrian State Railways , by then part of the DR . |
| 13 | The Palace was told that the only way to guarantee protection of her broadcast in future was to make it part of the Official Secrets Act and bring it under Government control . |