Example sentences of "it was [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly . |
| 2 | Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left . |
| 3 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 4 | It was raining at the time . |
| 5 | The difficulties of persuading a businessman to take on the running of such an ailing industry — it was losing at a rate of £2m. a day — and handle its relationship with the Government and the unions was exacerbated by the comparatively low salary on offer . |
| 6 | I started to look around and I put my hand up and it was lying at the back of my collar |
| 7 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 8 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |