Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fortunately they lost a ball and were looking for it when they spotted the baby wrapped in a towel , ’ he said . |
| 2 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 3 | He and Nell were agreeing that after the scene the actors would leave again ( all except Giles-the-murderer ) , even though they did n't like being banished all the time and were complaining about it . |
| 4 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 5 | All these governments , despite what they were saying or had said previously in public , considered the abduction of their citizens as a political act and were negotiating over it . |
| 6 | So I walked down to the sea and before long , I was at the ship and was swimming round it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But at least he recognized this now and was looking into it . |
| 9 | She had her back to the entrance of the garden and was looking across it at a small orchard whose fruit never found its way to the rector 's table , always being pilfered by the small street arabs of the district . |
| 10 | All the children , except Millie , scrambled from the room : she had staggered over to a side wall and was leaning against it , her hands hanging by her side , her mouth wide open to let her gasping breath free . |
| 11 | He had a bottle of cheap booze in his hand , and was swigging from it . |
| 12 | Ben had stood up , facing it , and was staring at it in his usual intent manner . |
| 13 | She believed in the ship , and was waiting for it . |
| 14 | At the far end of the yard the Duke had planted his branch in the ground and was sitting under it like a potentate . |