Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and me mam were singing it the other night . |
| 2 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 3 | ‘ You were pushing it a bit today , Fran . |
| 4 | Now you were doing it a very neat way , a quick way , of doing it all in one go , were n't you ? |
| 5 | Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night . |
| 6 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 7 | He was singing I do n't know why I love you , but I do , and a holiday couple in shades of beige were making it a waltz of dance-class precision . |
| 8 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 9 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
| 10 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 12 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 13 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 14 | The second time was pushing it a bit . ’ |
| 15 | on the way back it was pushing it a bit . |
| 16 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 17 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 18 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 19 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 20 | But yesterday he announced he was calling it a day . |
| 21 | Still having eunuchs in the choirs that was coming it a bit thick . |
| 22 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 24 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 25 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
| 26 | And Jim was giving it a drink of water . |
| 27 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 28 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |
| 29 | And er this erm tt As I say this old man , he he he 'd did n't like coming in too soon in the morning , and er a I could see he was finding it a bit difficult to find both our wages out of his money , although I got there to time and worked . |
| 30 | It was leaving it a little bit late , even if there was the possibility of serious trouble in the summer , not to be talking about it . |