Example sentences of "was [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now . |
| 2 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 3 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 4 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A shower unit caught fire while a woman was using it at her home in Weston Crescent , Norton . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 10 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 11 | remember what Richard was using it as yesterday . |
| 12 | No , but , he was using it as , as a fancy word for parallel and he was n't using it properly . |
| 13 | That was used as er , I ca n't remember what Richard was using it as yesterday |
| 14 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 15 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm surprised he was given it at all , really . |
| 17 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 18 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 19 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 20 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 21 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 22 | He stated that ‘ it ought to be inferred that … one of the purposes of the advertisement was to enable it to be used by smokers as ammunition to persuade others that their habit was not dangerous to the health of anyone except perhaps their own . ’ |
| 23 | As he was bringing it to his ear , he remembered that he was in his own apartment , alone . |
| 24 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 25 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 26 | So all he could do , poor bastard , was celebrate it with me . |
| 27 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The material was deemed faulty and Mr Martinson was emptying it from his truck when it splashed over him , causing severe burns . |
| 30 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |