Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 2 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 3 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 4 | Erm , I asked if they were having it in braille and then , and then er |
| 5 | Strong opposition to such Assemblies was silenced by a very modern excuse — they were doing it for Charity . |
| 6 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 7 | The townfolk always stared as if we were doing it on purpose , and that made us feel worse . |
| 8 | She were giving it to dog ! |
| 9 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 10 | Halfords , one the country 's leading independent after-sales parts suppliers , said it was ‘ keenly aware of the EC move ’ and was keeping it under review . |
| 11 | No you we , you was relating it to power in this country to any country and saying |
| 12 | When Smith was recommending it on television he said , ‘ I wish we could get beyond colour as the criterion and choose to be governed by the best men for the job . ’ |
| 13 | The chief executive of Merseytravel , which operates the service , emerged from a crisis meeting and conceded a crippling financial burden was forcing it to back closure plans . |
| 14 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 15 | So , in the end , I was mixing it with cocaine . |
| 16 | I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I 'd wake up to the fact that you 're pa , I , I I , there 's too many here . |
| 17 | He was doing it on purpose . |
| 18 | Sam had been using tape echo , or slap-back , and whether he was doing it on purpose or not , he also treated Elvis 's voice like another instrument . |
| 19 | She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago . |
| 20 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 21 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 22 | The shameful thing was doing it in front of strangers , and being seen by your friends in the process . |
| 23 | The grey-brown circle suddenly became the face of a planet , and Ace was approaching it from space . |
| 24 | And er I was showing it to chap next to me , tall chap , he took a fatherly interest in showing me how to work you know when foreman was out and er ooh he said there 's a bloody Taffy . |
| 25 | I she was throwing it around Christmas Eve though were n't she ? |
| 26 | PS Stoke just won thier first game under Joe Jordan … so what ? well I was watching it on telly , had to come to work , & had to find something to do ! |
| 27 | He did n't turn his head to identify the car that was trailing it in case he was recognized . |