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Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out .
2	‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion .
3	X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door .
4	In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails .
5	I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap
6	Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’
7	Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ .
8	If you were shining it into pure nothing you would n't see anything .
9	Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word
10	Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year .
11	They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings .
12	That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that .
13	It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable .
14	See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see .
15	Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes .
16	She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her .
17	In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks .
18	She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop .
19	No I was pulling it through this , that 's what I was doing .
20	However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war .
21	Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment .
22	and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of
23	No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason .
24	Jimmy adjusted the gun so that he was holding it with both hands .
25	I was holding it in such an awkward way that fingers eventually protested .
26	The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes .
27	And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent .
28	Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance .
29	Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance .
30	Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance .