Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The younger James Stephen in essays in the Edinburgh Review in 1838 and 1843 , later republished and expanded in Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography ( 1849 ) , took up the tradition of abolitionist historical writing on antislavery and was joined in it by his younger brother , Sir George Stephen , with Anti-Slavery Recollections ( 1854 ) . |
| 2 | I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me . |
| 3 | Alan had noticed the change of dress and was irritated by it . |
| 4 | And then to Robyn 's enormous relief he opened a door , revealing a large , luxurious bathroom , and she was propelled into it . |
| 5 | But the truth to tell Sunday morning I went up and come in and Fred had his er cushion and Windy was fallen across it |
| 6 | He did it because he was intoxicated by it : and he had found it for himself . |
| 7 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 8 | She was consumed with it — driven by some mysterious need to conquer , to lay claim to one more devoted subject in this kingdom that was all her own . |
| 9 | Trainer Henry Cecil said : ‘ Tenby developed mild colic on Sunday night and as a precaution was treated for it . |
| 10 | Mr Barter said that there were many shortcomings in the valves , heat sensors and hot water system at the centre , which had been open for only six weeks at the time Mrs Ormerod was treated in it . |
| 11 | Permission was given for it to move into the Imperial Institute , but there was no shelving , which made the library unusable . |
| 12 | No price was given for it . |
| 13 | The company also brought out a finished dual-standard machine , the Nutek Duet , which includes both 33MHz 80486 and 33MHz 68030 processors to run both its emulation of Macintosh System , and MS-DOS and Windows ; no price was given for it . |
| 14 | Its name was given to it by Jesuit missionaries in South America who saw the flowers as a representation of the Crucifixion — the corona is the crown of thorns , the anthers the five wounds in the hands , feet and side of Christ , the three styles , the nails , the five petals and five sepals 10 of the disciples , less Peter and Judas , the hand-shaped leaves and tendrils the hands and whips of Christ 's torturers . |
| 15 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 16 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 17 | My natural instinct was to go into it ; I went around and sat in with various bands , but they were all so loud ! ’ |
| 18 | He could n't cut it and he was enmeshed in it himself . |
| 19 | This decision was somewhat controversial and a gloss was placed on it in Boyle v Kodak [ 1969 ] 1 WLR 661 . |
| 20 | Difficulties were experienced in the provision of construction workers since labour was scarce in Siberia , and the mine administration was competing for it as well . |
| 21 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 22 | Maggie was puzzling over it as Felipe came out and normally she would have told him at once , but he was not alone . |
| 23 | I was speeding toward it as fast as gravity could take me . |
| 24 | Despite Leon 's words , despite my certain knowledge that the spirit of Francis had sailed after its living son away , down the drive , out of Sleet to freedom , I entered Leon 's room determined to winnow some vestige of that poor ghost , Francis 's ghost , from what I would find in there ; and , having found it , perhaps my intention was to sit with it awhile uttering such emptinesses as , I 'm sorry and , Forgive me . |
| 25 | I knew it was a really tight corner and so I slowed right down and was criticized for it , ha . |
| 26 | Whatever it was , it was like a wall between them and he was honest enough to admit to himself that most of the time he was building on it brick by brick in order to blot her out of his sight … forever . |
| 27 | I mean , a apart from Bertha , I know he was tricked into it by his father and brother , that marriage , but he |
| 28 | There was dancing in it , there was singing in it . |
| 29 | Evelyn was gazing at it and at the eager face above the frilly collar , but whether in rapture or disbelief Sam could not tell . |
| 30 | The Collector had pulled a grey handkerchief from his pocket to mop his brow and was gazing at it with pleasure , thinking again that he was a simple man at heart . |