Example sentences of "were [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 3 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 6 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 7 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 8 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 9 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 10 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 11 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 12 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 13 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 14 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 15 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 16 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 17 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 18 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 19 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 20 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 21 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 22 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 23 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 24 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |
| 25 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 26 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 27 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 28 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 29 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 30 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |