Example sentences of "it was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time it lifted its head and pirouetted , it registered the new direction it was taking in relation to the sun . |
| 2 | ‘ It was getting on top of me . ’ |
| 3 | It was getting near time for communion . |
| 4 | In the 1980–1 session , for example , it was catering for teachers of nearly twenty further education colleges within a radius of 100 miles of the Institute . |
| 5 | In the same breath as admitting that Lightning , the high-end , super-pipelined Sparc chip that it was developing in conjunction with LSI Logic Corp and Hyundai Electronics , was n't going to strike after all , Metaflow Technology also began to talk about a next-generation effort in design that would follow ( UX No 273 ) . |
| 6 | Rather the contrary , it was spreading to members of the community with no pre-Conquest memories . |
| 7 | We consent to that and your Lordship one direction to help us when we come to calculating interest is one of the earliest figures that your Lordship came to and it was dealing with care to date . |
| 8 | Although the Government 's recent decision to pull all atomic reactors from the sell-off programme and scrap the construction of three Pressurised Water Reactors was expected to freeze Britain 's civil nuclear programme for at least five years , BNFL yesterday disclosed that it was looking at ways of diversifying into generating power . |
| 9 | Though it was pissing with rain in Spain . |
| 10 | THE HOME OFFICE yesterday released 25 more Kurds seeking political asylum in Britain from detention centres but denied it was bowing to pressure after the death of a detainee who set fire to himself last week . |
| 11 | It was , it was going from side to side . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |