Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 3 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 8 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 9 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 10 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |