Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm |
| 2 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 3 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 4 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 5 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 6 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
| 7 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 8 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 9 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 10 | If you were shining it into pure nothing you would n't see anything . |
| 11 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 12 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 13 | Then within the team 's , in the Policy Team there were three Policy Development Officer 's , in the Neighbourhood Development Team there were two Development Officer 's and in the Community Development Team there are one , two , there are well there are normally six officer 's that you could I that you could identify , but there are other people that relate to them , but then it gets a bit complicated so were keep it at that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 16 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
| 17 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 18 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 19 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 20 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm surprised he was given it at all , really . |
| 22 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 23 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 24 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 25 | This , made worse by the war of 1756–63 and catastrophic by that of 1778–83 , was to destroy it in 1787–89 . |
| 26 | No I was pulling it through this , that 's what I was doing . |
| 27 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 28 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 29 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 30 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |