Example sentences of "it was [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was drifting through the suburbs of outer Manchester . |
| 2 | All the houses looked like Gloucester in the olden days andf it was snowing in the streets . |
| 3 | It was beginning with the disasters on one way systems and then of course a panic decision to do further research into the so called traffic problems of St Albans . |
| 4 | Outside the Tivoli Theatre , it was raining on the photographs ( behind glass ) of all the pantomime stars . |
| 5 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |
| 6 | And so well I did n't like what he was doing but at any rate it happened on Sunday morning er , somebody read the lesson and it was Saint , Saint John and there were chapters and of course it was skipping about the verses all over the place , you just got fed up with verses . |
| 7 | However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions . |
| 8 | One of the last acts of Carcani 's government was the announcement on Feb. 20 that it was acceding to the students ' demand to strip Hoxha 's name from Tirana University . |
| 9 | The issue had been brought into focus last September , when GATT condemned a US ban on the import from Mexico of drift-netted tuna , imposed on the grounds that it was leading to the deaths of dolphins and other marine mammals . |
| 10 | Already it was whispering at the roots of grass , inciting it to rise , breathing on sheltered primroses , preaching its false gospel of resurrection and renewal , while underneath , the rot continued , the trampled snail returned to clay and beauty drew sustenance from a grave . |
| 11 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 12 | He says it was flicking through the frequencies when it locked onto a call and he recognised the voice as Diana . |
| 13 | Even if it began to howl or to wave its rattle , we would hardly claim that by so doing it was discriminating between the items mentioned and a myriad others ; indeed it would be odd to talk of its discriminating at all . |
| 14 | And then it was saying about the ones where they take the front end of a car and joi , match it to the stolen |