Example sentences of "he was [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 3 | As he was bringing it to his ear , he remembered that he was in his own apartment , alone . |
| 4 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 5 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 6 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm surprised he was given it at all , really . |
| 8 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 10 | No , but , he was using it as , as a fancy word for parallel and he was n't using it properly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 13 | Jimmy adjusted the gun so that he was holding it with both hands . |
| 14 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 15 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 16 | ‘ Would it be rude of me to ask who he was hiding it from ? ’ |
| 17 | I had queried his dose of Dexamethazone with a nurse earlier , and she assured me he was getting it in his drip , but I have a suspicion that it had been reduced or even forgotten . |
| 18 | So he was taking it for granted or or chancing his hand that this Monday for this year was going to be another good day . |
| 19 | Yeah , yeah , he 'd forgot all about it , did n't he , he was putting it on you see . |
| 20 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 21 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 22 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 23 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 24 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 25 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 27 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 28 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 29 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 30 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |