Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago there were over two hundred kidnappings there — the pickings were rich along the Costa Smeralda for those who were sticking it out on the hills above — but last year there were only three , and one of those a complete failure . |
| 2 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 3 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 4 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 5 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 6 | I was a bit worried when we were trying it on with the passes . |
| 7 | ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’ |
| 8 | They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date . |
| 9 | Here he is now , cast in cement , somewhat undersized Gibson slung around him , coloured in garish as the statue , showing dully familiar images — Bob , Bunny and Peter in Wailing Wailers suits , Bob at the Peace Concert in 1978 , linking the hands of opposing politicians whose supporters were shooting it out on the streets . |
| 10 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 11 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 12 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 13 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 14 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 15 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 16 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 17 | ‘ I found out , by chance , that the girl I was in love with and hoping to marry was having it off with a colleague . |
| 18 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 19 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 20 | Now if you 'd got grudge against the bloke who was taking it off in the shop , in the farmyard , after when you got back home , of course you had to come I mean they did n't stick it in the field , like they do now . |
| 21 | The custodian was taking it back to the clubhouse area , where it would be needed for the final ceremony in about an hour 's time . |
| 22 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 23 | He was a nice man , and she quite liked him , but where Ven 's charm came naturally , Lubor was laying it on with a trowel . |
| 24 | He had made his right hand into a fist and was jabbing it up at the sky , feinting in the direction of the falling missile . |