Example sentences of "was [verb] it [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 6 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 7 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 8 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 9 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 10 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 13 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 16 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 17 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 22 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 23 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |