Example sentences of "[vb past] it was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In first time and a better fish , we even joked it was bound to be another twenty ! |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 3 | I went into the garden and I found it was pouring with ram- . |
| 4 | This has been confirmed in England ; for example by a teacher in Manchester who believed it was caused in her sample by a phonic bias in the teaching . |
| 5 | I think that announcement was actually made I told it was going to be and has committed to support D R D A two and that effectively provides an alternative A P I perhaps as O D B C with Microsoft 's backing will become the norm in the P C environment , D R D A will be in the I B M environment . |
| 6 | Anaesthetised it was laid on a damp towel for treatment . |
| 7 | But she recalled it was to do with God . |
| 8 | She excused his erratic behaviour because she assumed it was linked to business pressures and that it was part of the aggressive masculinity which she prized . |
| 9 | Here , led by the mysterious H. de R. ( A. F. Leach later claimed it was led by William of Barnby , fellow and bursar of Merton College ) , they established a rebel university away from their argumentative southern counterparts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He reckoned it was pinched outside the post office |
| 12 | When the scheme began it was described as a new concept in retailing . |
| 13 | What was now essential , he believed , was the development and promotion of the principles which would enable democratic forces throughout Europe to ensure that when peace returned it was built on secure foundations . |
| 14 | I thought that it was made of stone , but to my horror I discovered it was made of cement blocks ! |
| 15 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 16 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 17 | When it hit it was travelling at more than 400 miles an hour : no one expected it , and hundreds of Japanese living along the coasts of Hokkaido and Honshu were drowned . |
| 18 | It was commercially cut for reeds until the 1950s , which meant it was kept in good order but then cutting stopped and later the River Hundred was straightened because there was so much flooding at Knodishall . |
| 19 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 20 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 21 | As they got closer , they saw it was rising from a burning truck . |
| 22 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 23 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 24 | I saw it was coming from Mr Rochester 's door , which was slightly open . |
| 25 | For a moment Luce had difficulty identifying Sagittarius ; then she saw it was symbolised by its ruling planet , Jupiter , and was portrayed as the Bringer of Joy . |
| 26 | Before building commenced it was decided on the advice of the architects , by now Spalding and Theakston , to raise the whole structure by 2 feet ; this , at a cost of £500 , would make the buildings more impressive when viewed from the railway , and also improve the drainage system . |
| 27 | About a quarter thought the BBC was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government ; rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 28 | Only one elector in seven thought ITV was biased in its treatment of the Conservatives and , again , rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 29 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 30 | Only one in seven thought ITV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservatives and , again , rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |