Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 2 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 3 | They ha the er When it was cut up like that , in the house there was er |
| 4 | It was filling up with more and more people . |
| 5 | Well erm it , oh well I mean it is better in as much as it was sticking out like that |
| 6 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 7 | The road was too rough for one thought to rest long in mind before it was cannoned out by another . |
| 8 | Almondsbury were back on level terms two minutes after the break when Storey was allowed to centre , and although Tony Price cleared off the line , it was followed up by another player to hammer in . |
| 9 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 10 | Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all . |
| 11 | But support had been no more than patchy until it was taken up by such a strong party group on the eve of electoral victory . |
| 12 | ( Italian opera had already appeared in Munich in 1653 , very soon after the end of the Thirty Years War ; indeed it was taken up by several German courts during the 1650S . ) |
| 13 | However , work on the War Time Operational Expert System was continued until it was passed over to another Branch and , of course , I have continued to sponsor the work on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid since this was my own MSc project . |
| 14 | Well I think it , I think it was put on after this bit . |
| 15 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 16 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 17 | It could still be modified for use , provided it was backed up with some new , stronger coercion . |
| 18 | First , then , what exactly is the simple detective story , to use the term it was known by in that 1930s heyday ? |
| 19 | But I think it was coming back in this match , and I would be disappointed not to be in the team to face France . |