Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 2 | You know , I mean but this teacher wo n't stand no nonsense and I said to Lee y you were at it three years before you could speak like Carla speaks it ! |
| 3 | They were at it last night , as they are nearly every night . |
| 4 | ‘ You certainly know how to be angry with a man , querida — but it was worth it all to hear you apologising , on that journey back from the hospital . |
| 5 | it was still , erm quite good that was worth it that day |
| 6 | But there was a man captured , and Lachlan got it out of him who was behind it all . ’ |
| 7 | What Thucydides means is that the Spartans were immediately responsible for the breaking of the treaty/libations — but that Athenian dynamism was behind it all . |
| 8 | ‘ She said Stephen Blufton was behind it all . |
| 9 | She had assumed that Harry Martin was behind it all , but who was to say if Luke Calder had n't coldly and calculatedly planned the whole thing ? |
| 10 | But you was with it all the War , even before the War , and then when the War came , and of course you 've got a fair amount when the War came on you see . |
| 11 | Angie was into it all the way . |
| 12 | to do it , but then again that was in it all the time , you know , it just do n't make sense |
| 13 | I 'll keep the one that was in it safe in case its owner turns up . ’ |
| 14 | and old Ruby Wax was in it last night . |
| 15 | Yeah , he was on it some time and Charles and they 'd put him back on the ward becau when John last saw him , cos he , John was visiting er , used to be having treatment or something at |
| 16 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |