Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ; |
| 2 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 3 | I did n't make any bread out of it , just me own gear , like , and I was still in debt to this lad who was laying it on me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Give me that , ’ said Tabitha , snatching the melon from Saskia , who was balancing it on her arm , rolling it slowly from her shoulder down to her wrist and back again . |