Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |
| 2 | Difficult though it was to come back after so long a lay-off , she was the runner-up in the Yorkshire Championship both in 1950 and in 1953 . |
| 3 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 4 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 5 | It was creeping down from outside , from somewhere far to the north , well up in the hills a mile or more away . |
| 6 | His fame , however , rests on his A Complete and Universal English Dictionary , first published in 1774 ; it was to pass through at least twenty-three reprints and editions by 1848 . |
| 7 | It was looked on as not advisable to deal with it under the Liverpool Corporation Act . |
| 8 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 9 | It was set up by about thirty young unemployed men in January 1965 . |
| 10 | Detectives want to hear from anyone who saw a light blue Ford Transit van , registration number GIB 915 , in Castlerock yesterday morning or between the village and the secluded spot on Springburn Road , Milltown , where it was burnt out at 9.35am . |