Example sentences of "it was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we were young it was deep mourning for a year and half mourning for six months , ’ Pat said . |
| 2 | And it was either thinking about the wage packet at end of week which I was at first . |
| 3 | Visiting them at Christmas was particularly rewarding for the field-worker in order to see conspired contacts demonstrate the regard in which they held the neighbourhood police ; of course , it was equally rewarding for the police . |
| 4 | Blaming its current economic difficulties on the absence of multilateral aid ( frozen since the coup ) , the government announced on Aug. 26 that it was temporarily withdrawing from the Andean Pact , the five-country trade bloc whose other members were Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador and Venezuela . |
| 5 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 6 | It was not helped by the fact that it was involuntarily wriggling on the plate . |
| 7 | One of the attractions of NoS was that , in breaking away from the Fleet Street mould , it was also looking for a different sort of employee . |
| 8 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 9 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 10 | It was just floating on the surface , not wading or swimming , but unnaturally afloat ; so exhausted it could n't even sit upright . |
| 11 | Mannerism is usually seen as an RCA development ; but once again we find that it was already developing during the Sun period , notably in ‘ Baby Let's Play House ’ ( 1955 ) . |
| 12 | They indicate that it was already accelerating in the mid and late 1960s and actually reached a peak in the first three or four years of the following decade , after which it fell back substantially . |
| 13 | In most professions it was suicide to admit to being a homosexual , and in some macho jobs like bricklaying it was probably asking for a brick to be dropped upon one 's head . |
| 14 | However strange this was to us , it was genuinely moving to the Chinese audience , and Comrade Chang , the cadre , sitting on my left , was in tears at the end of a sequence mourning the death of Chou . |
| 15 | The paper , it seemed to some , was no longer merely informing the readership about new and different musical forms , it was actively sneering at the tastes of its supporters — if you did n't have a favourite reggae record , something was the matter with you . |
| 16 | I went back to the mother and baby home , for another almost two years , and from there that was I think I said at the beginning , how I actually was introduced to Flats , and it was actually living at the mother and baby home , doing far more work with girls |
| 17 | Having outlined the expectations and experience of practitioners with respect to the care programme approach , the following section looks at available information about how it was actually working in the three districts concerned . |
| 18 | He considered it was potentially damaging to the children to be at the Hearing , and , besides , the case of Proof before the Sheriff was still pending . |
| 19 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
| 20 | The much publicised schism between Adobe and Apple followed by the latter 's siding with Microsoft — a company it was then attacking in the courts — all seems a little strange , especially so as there is no actual product involved , only a ‘ standard ’ . |
| 21 | The Home Office confirmed that it was still looking for a ‘ parliamentary opportunity ’ to fulfil the promise . |
| 22 | It was still lying on the ground near where Hugh was deeply asleep . |
| 23 | She walked up the path and leant wearily against the wall while she dug in her bag for her key , then groaned when she remembered that it was still lying on the floor of the car park where she had dropped it . |
| 24 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 25 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 26 | While it was still trading in the United Kingdom I.B.C. granted a debenture , dated 28 April 1989 , to the Swiss Bank Corporation ( ‘ the bank ’ ) . |
| 27 | It was like getting into the bath |
| 28 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 29 | And then it thing and it came , it was really galloping towards the fence and then , cor ! |
| 30 | It was all according to the plan . |