Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 4 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 5 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 6 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 7 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 8 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 9 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 10 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 11 | They 'd been keeping it under lights , and it seemed to be growing quite happily with one end in a pot of special plant water . |
| 12 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 14 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 15 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 16 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 17 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 18 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 19 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 20 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 21 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 22 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 23 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 24 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 25 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 26 | While the timing of the news came as a surprise to him , he said , he had been expecting it since February 1992 . |
| 27 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 28 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 29 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 30 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |