Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 2 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 3 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 4 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 5 | And then it was taken out and er dripped and cleaned , and then it was hung up in the kitchen to dry , and that was how the hams were done . |
| 6 | but erm er I think that er that picture I borrowed , I mean with her permission of course , erm and er I think it was hung up in the bathroom or somewhere , which was not the best place for a photograph to be really . |
| 7 | It was dug up in a ploughed field in South Worcestershire … the precise location is being kept secret . |
| 8 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 9 | One day the settee is opposite the door , the next it is where the telly was before it was swapped round with the nest of tables . |
| 10 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 11 | And that in fact was , produced a split vote in the police authority fifty fifty , and it , it was chucked out by the chairman 's casting vote . |
| 12 | It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece . |
| 13 | It was tied up in a parcel . |
| 14 | the cuistot , ravitailleur , or homme-soupe , as the ration parties were variously called , in that it was played out in the solitariness of night . |
| 15 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 16 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 17 | The original tree survived until 1911 , when it was blown down in a storm . |
| 18 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 19 | It was pushed up to the top of the page . |
| 20 | It was pointed out to the young man that Philip was the chairman of CUM . |
| 21 | It was pointed out to the Special Branch man behind the screen that the police team investigating the murders had no knowledge of his information and he was asked why he had not passed it to them . |
| 22 | When it was pointed out to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) that his taxes would rise , the right hon. and learned Gentleman seemed surprised : what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , in effect , was that taxes under Labour would ’ only ’ rise higher than those in any other G7 country — lower , perhaps , than taxes in Albania , but higher than those of all our competitors . |
| 23 | The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’ |
| 24 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 25 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 26 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 27 | Kuwait and the UAE in particular were reported to have exceeded their quotas during 1989 , and it was pointed out in the press that apart from these two countries , together with Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia , the other eight OPEC members were currently producing at or around their ceiling capacity , so that any further additions to output would come from those five major Gulf producers . |
| 28 | It was pointed out by a number of respondents that some lenders already include requirements of this kind in their instructions to solicitors . |
| 29 | As the boat rammed the steel plates , fabric ripping as it was dragged up against the rough barnacled side , he fired . |
| 30 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |