Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 2 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 3 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 4 | You 're gon na paint them exactly as you would if you were just doing it on paper alright ? |
| 5 | So they were just surrounding it in places . |
| 6 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 7 | Many a time I had wished that Frank and Salome were not so upwardly mobile and were back slumming it in Stuart Street . |
| 8 | so she says they were getting it but were n't watching it till eight . |
| 9 | I were n't eating it until |
| 10 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 11 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 12 | They certainly were n't saying it about Lester Piggott on Royal Academy a couple of years back either . |
| 13 | Presumably an item so secret that they were even keeping it from Dr Al-Kaysi of the University of Yarmouk . |
| 14 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 15 | In 1923 he began to study economic theory and became convinced that government objectives , far from ensuring a return to prosperity , were actively discouraging it through deflationary policies and obsession with the return to the gold standard at pre-war parity . |
| 16 | We were actually presenting it in conjunction with that soft-drinks company , our three best DJs the compères . ’ |
| 17 | You suggest he was secretly testing it for work on the Antarctic land mass , flying it south over the pack ice . |
| 18 | The way he said it , it was as if he was only lending it to her in order to have her bring it back again , but she was forced to agree . |
| 19 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 20 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 21 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 22 | In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ . |
| 23 | Lydia watched it , thinking that they had much in common except that she had her prey in her grasp and was already preparing it for consumption . |
| 24 | And let's not forget that Waqar shot out the first four England batsmen in the second innings at The Oval with a new ball — and he was scarcely getting it off line . |
| 25 | I was just mentioning it to you in case you wanted |
| 26 | And for the next three or four months , I was just getting it of a weekend . |
| 27 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 28 | When we were reading it I found that I was just reading it as a book and the and that all the coming about you forget who 's in , who 's there and who 's not there . |
| 29 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 30 | John was just running it for me now so I 'll pick it up on the way home tonight . |