Example sentences of "were [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
| 3 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 4 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 11 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
| 12 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |