Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago there were over two hundred kidnappings there — the pickings were rich along the Costa Smeralda for those who were sticking it out on the hills above — but last year there were only three , and one of those a complete failure . |
| 2 | Well he said tha , they were cooking it on like on site on the caravan site , he said an , an , and you know , they got out of this caravan and then |
| 3 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 4 | We were sharing it out between four so we got we we always say a quarter I think I think it 's a good idea the way the Americans say a fourth cos you can it ties it up with the four shared out between four people . |
| 5 | They were very relaxed and Skip conveys the feeling that they were treating it more as a cruise than a race . |
| 6 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 7 | I do n't think it 's as simple as that because at the time that we were doing the budget , we were doing it really in September , and most of those other cate categories of work , apart from like auto-offs reports and things , were n't having an impact . |
| 8 | None has led me to that dangerous conclusion that we were doing it better over there than here . |
| 9 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 10 | Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year . |
| 11 | It was fiat and broad , and a crowd of sweating men on the deck were poling it upstream amongst the bird-filled islets . |
| 12 | We telephoned from our mobile to theirs — probably at a combined speed of 100mph going away from each other — and it was indeed us who were hotfooting it away from the airport . |
| 13 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy . |
| 14 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 15 | I was a bit worried when we were trying it on with the passes . |
| 16 | Perhaps this was all a conspiracy between them … they were trying it out on her first . |
| 17 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 18 | They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date . |
| 19 | Here he is now , cast in cement , somewhat undersized Gibson slung around him , coloured in garish as the statue , showing dully familiar images — Bob , Bunny and Peter in Wailing Wailers suits , Bob at the Peace Concert in 1978 , linking the hands of opposing politicians whose supporters were shooting it out on the streets . |
| 20 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 21 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 22 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 23 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 24 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 25 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 26 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 27 | I did n't have to pay any more and I did n't , and I was passing it over to Steve . |
| 28 | He had swum to the raft , put his head against it and was pushing it forward with heavy thrusts of his back legs . |
| 29 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 30 | The 1992 Coca-Cola International was awarded World Cup status for the second consecutive year , and organiser Desi McHenry was offered it again for this year if he could change the date , something he was unfortunately unable to do . |