Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 2 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 3 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 4 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 5 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 6 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 7 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 8 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |
| 9 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 10 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 11 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 12 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 13 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 14 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 15 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 16 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 17 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 18 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 19 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 20 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 21 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 22 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 23 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 24 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
| 25 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |
| 26 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 27 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |
| 28 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 29 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 30 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |