Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yesterday he announced he was calling it a day . |
| 2 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 3 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 4 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |
| 5 | And er this erm tt As I say this old man , he he he 'd did n't like coming in too soon in the morning , and er a I could see he was finding it a bit difficult to find both our wages out of his money , although I got there to time and worked . |
| 6 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |