Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 3 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 4 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 5 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 9 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 10 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 11 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 12 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 13 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 14 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 16 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 17 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 18 | " 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 . " |
| 19 | ‘ We can give him flowers , ’ said Bobbie , when they were discussing it in the garden , later that day . |
| 20 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 21 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 22 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 23 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 24 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |
| 25 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 26 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 27 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 30 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |