Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 3 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 6 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 7 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 8 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 9 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 10 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 11 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 12 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 13 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 14 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 15 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 16 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 17 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 18 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 20 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 21 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 22 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 23 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 24 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 25 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 26 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 27 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 28 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 29 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 30 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |