Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 5 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 6 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 7 | " 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 . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 10 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 11 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 12 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 13 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 14 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 15 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 16 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 17 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 18 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 19 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 20 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |
| 21 | My reaction — rather cowardly — was to shove it in a drawer and try to forget it . |
| 22 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |