Example sentences of "it was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easier going for Hugh who was now in great pain , but Marian and Allen became more watchful and uneasy because the most uncertain and dangerous of all possible enemies , man , was near . |
| 2 | Though it was completely lacking in originality its publication in Western Europe drew the admiration of many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment . |
| 3 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 4 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |
| 5 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 6 | It was still running in New York , where Ellen Burstyn had won a Tony award for her performance as the mistress whose married lover conducts their affair on a once-a-year , same-time-same-place basis . |
| 7 | It was still flowering in November , but the colour had paled to a soft lavender . |
| 8 | It was like walking into Chicago at times in Walsall and the snowdrops as they used to call their military police with the white steel helmets on they used to ride around in jeeps . |
| 9 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 10 | Now , at last , here in Hochhauser , looking her best , with her dear , dear friends from the past , she knew it was all going to work . |
| 11 | Bobbie ( RH ) : It was better working with pupils from another school 'cos everyone 's good at different things so the more people in the project , the more things we can do . |
| 12 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |