Example sentences of "was [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
| 2 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 4 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 5 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 6 | The second time was pushing it a bit . ’ |
| 7 | on the way back it was pushing it a bit . |
| 8 | When Julie Mills moved into her new home she thought all she 'd need to do to the kitchen was give it a lick of paint . |
| 9 | Whether it was give it a better flavour or no , I do n't know but we never used the saltpetre . |
| 10 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 11 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 12 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 13 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 14 | I felt quite nervous undertaking this role in case I became ‘ out of my depth ’ and could n't provide the new mother with the support that she needed , either emotionally or physically , but on balance decided that the only way to find out was to give it a whirl ! |
| 15 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 16 | But yesterday he announced he was calling it a day . |
| 17 | Still having eunuchs in the choirs that was coming it a bit thick . |
| 18 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 20 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 21 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
| 22 | And Jim was giving it a drink of water . |
| 23 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 24 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |
| 25 | And er this erm tt As I say this old man , he he he 'd did n't like coming in too soon in the morning , and er a I could see he was finding it a bit difficult to find both our wages out of his money , although I got there to time and worked . |
| 26 | It was leaving it a little bit late , even if there was the possibility of serious trouble in the summer , not to be talking about it . |
| 27 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 28 | This problem was to make it the most accident-prone routine in Tiller history . |
| 29 | If I was to enter it a number , one O two . |