Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking it another room bigger . |
| 2 | I was reading it this morning . ’ |
| 3 | I was enjoying it all in a mildly responsive sort of way . |
| 4 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 5 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 6 | The Ray-Bans and all that , I was getting it all for her for Christmas . ’ |
| 7 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 8 | Did n't know she was getting it , I was getting it this morning . |
| 9 | I think I was expecting it all to be much worse , but I enjoyed it and could honestly say that it was one of the best days of my life . |
| 10 | I broke my nail I was biting it last night . |
| 11 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 12 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 13 | It was a make or break meeting and I was scared that I might end up getting violent — I was bunging it all up , trying to keep my mind balanced . |
| 14 | Do you think I was making it all up just to console the Hobdens ? ’ |
| 15 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't really ‘ bang it ’ but at one stage I was doing it three weekends out of four . |
| 17 | Though it does n't make a noise cos I was doing it wrong . |
| 18 | And she were doing it full-time and then she went she had children and then she went part-time . |
| 19 | Yeah , on the six o'clock they said it was half way through and Nigel Mansell was the lead and I thought you were watching it live , so I would n't just come through and |
| 20 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 21 | You see , if you were to make it public now , you would empower those people who might be the victims of this cut to articulate their views and to lobby and to be part of this process , rather than just passive participants . |
| 22 | Yeah , she was wearing it flat out when she was |
| 23 | For the first time in her life she was doing something for herself ; doing it without help from anyone , and what was more , she was getting it right . |
| 24 | In fact , she was singing it all yesterday . |
| 25 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 26 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 27 | Marc came in as she was towelling it dry . |
| 28 | She was keeping it tidy . |
| 29 | She was making it worse for herself but could n't help it . |
| 30 | ‘ I know not what you are talking about , Joan Halidon ! ’ complained Anne , having decided that she was making it all up . |