Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 2 | I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 3 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 4 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 6 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 7 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 8 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 9 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 10 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 11 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 12 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |