Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a plane overhead and the A.-A. guns were firing at it . |
| 2 | Richard Muddle , Wolverhampton managing director , said : ‘ The horses were struggling on it and were not happy with the undulations . |
| 3 | But the players were singing in it afterwards and Dowie managed to take a tenner off Bingham ; he had bet the manager he would score a goal . |
| 4 | They were laughing at it . |
| 5 | We were laughing about it . |
| 6 | The music was loud and the killers were laughing like it was a picnic . |
| 7 | People were walking after it — a young man about his own age with blank , staring face , a sobbing woman supported by her husband , and a girl , whose expression , as she passed , startled him . |
| 8 | Not a lot of point having a fence there they were climbing over it . |
| 9 | Similarly in the Middle East the Americans , while valuing the British presence ( notably the base at Suez ) , were looking beyond it to a more comprehensive defence system . |
| 10 | they were looking over it |
| 11 | We were looking across it at a slice-shaped building , calcined with pollution . |
| 12 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 13 | ‘ You were looking at it and frowning , ’ Nan said . |
| 14 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 15 | A big colour television set was on and one or two were looking at it , at a programme designed for seven-year-olds , but most were just sitting . |
| 16 | And he wants to , at the very least I think it 's reasonable to say , he wants to influence the Communist Party that , that this is the way you should be looking at the world and it , it is different to the way you were looking at it . |
| 17 | ‘ Fortunately they lost a ball and were looking for it when they spotted the baby wrapped in a towel , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We were going round actually looking for work , not ve very keen but we were , we were looking for it . |
| 19 | It was a new envelope and address label , so he must have a typewriter in there too , but unless you were looking for it , you would hardly have spotted the swap . |
| 20 | You were looking for it last night . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 23 | In the first place people developed a greater objectiveness than they had ever done while they were living in it . |
| 24 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 25 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 26 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 27 | A couch had appeared on the balcony — had it always been there ? — and they were lying on it together , though he could not remember moving to it . |
| 28 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 29 | Only the people were paying for it off of taxes . |
| 30 | If you were paying for it I could n't stop you now you 're sixteen |