Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid-1970s local government spending was under severe pressure from the centre as more and more complex rules were developed to keep it under control . |
| 2 | They were to continue to dominate it until the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | You could n't be alone with your tragedy , you were expected to bring it into the living-room with you , as the others brought their newspapers , knitting , homework . |
| 4 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 5 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 6 | When bad news was finally announced , dealers were instructed to conceal it from their clients for as long as possible . |
| 7 | Priene was rebuilt near the mouth of the River Meander about 334 B.C. Because the town was not of great importance under the late Roman rule , few alterations were made to adapt it to Roman needs , so much of the Hellenistic building has survived . |
| 8 | Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just . |
| 9 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
| 10 | On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft . |
| 11 | When he wanted to get rid of the consequence of the murder , women were made to share it with two other victims . |
| 12 | Isaacs named the substance interferon , and for some years vigorous efforts were made to develop it into a practical therapeutic agent . |
| 13 | Cranes were used to hoist it into place on the 8th March 1986 . |
| 14 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 15 | I suppose you could , if you were going to wear it like that , you could take the belt right off . |
| 16 | India we were going to discuss it with . |
| 17 | Th th the the advancement on the exercise is to make them one sentence by using , yes , you could use a conjunction if you were going to make it into one sentence . |
| 18 | And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made . |
| 19 | You were going to stick it on my windscreen . ’ |
| 20 | SO even if they felt hostility , they were going to keep it to themselves . |
| 21 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 22 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 23 | We were invited to spend it with Bill and Claire , who have a small farm about 15 miles outside Invercargill ( which is right at the bottom of the South Island ) . |
| 24 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 25 | Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour , performed by Our People 's Theatre Arts Group , was so well received they were asked to take it to lots of other venues , including Sunderland Empire . |
| 26 | We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton . |
| 27 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 28 | Like PEPS everywhere , this was slow to catch on , especially as dealers were forced to sell it for days at a time without getting paid commission for it , so most did n't bother . |
| 29 | Years later they even kept a black panther for a while , until there were complaints and they were forced to send it to a wildlife park . |
| 30 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |