Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the former golden girl of British tennis , who was mixing it with the world 's elite just five years ago , was pegged back when Smith won the second set tie-break 7-2 . |
| 32 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 33 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 34 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 35 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 36 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 37 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 38 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 39 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | On the steps of the stadium someone had erected a red hammer-and-sickle flag and was waving it towards the crowd and the few media people present . |
| 43 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 44 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 45 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 46 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 47 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 48 | At luncheon , Bradbury 's Alsatian dog was found to have retrieved a boot of a German airman and was chewing it under the table . |
| 49 | While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . |
| 50 | On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song . |
| 51 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |
| 52 | He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet . |
| 53 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |