Example sentences of "was [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 4 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 10 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 13 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 14 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 15 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 16 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 17 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 21 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 22 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 23 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 24 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 25 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 26 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 27 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 28 | I was reading it in the paper I thought oh I wonder if is . |
| 29 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 30 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |