Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
| 2 | ‘ As though it were sworn in a court-room , ’ confirmed the detective . |
| 3 | I 'll get Annunziata to keep something hot in the kitchen and then if you 'd rather not be bothered with us tonight , you can have it there — or in bed , if that would be better , ’ said Julia , her heart feeling as though it were held in a tightening vice as she saw his misery . |
| 4 | The idea that England was an ‘ Empire ’ was not new : it was asserted in a letter from Cuthbert Tunstall to Henry VIII in 1517 : ‘ But the Crown of England is an Empire of hitself … : for which cause your Grace werith a close crown . ’ |
| 5 | It was confirmed in a Commons written reply today that the Inland Revenue is investigating the claims . |
| 6 | This happened in New England over religious issues ; it was to happen in a great many other places , usually for less solemn reasons , over the next three centuries . |
| 7 | ‘ I gather from Noakes that it was crouching in a gateway . ’ |
| 8 | It was illustrated in a 15th century manuscript , and Gerard referred to it as being useful for preserving the eyesight ; Culpeper advised its use for those " that are bit with serpents or have eat … mushrooms " . |
| 9 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 10 | it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but |
| 11 | And as I say , if it was done in a very civilized way by people who 'd perhaps learnt to smile or somehow turn this , what must be a minor offence , into a minor occasion , erm I think it , it might actually ease relationships . |
| 12 | If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way . |
| 13 | Parliament was re-opened on July 27 , one year after it was damaged in a six-day siege during a coup attempt [ see pp. 37606-07 ] . |
| 14 | It was cut in a trendier style , worn longer than it would have been , but its shape still reminded one of all those gruff but infinitely reliable heroes . |
| 15 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 16 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 17 | When Arsenal won the league again two years later , it did n't feel the same — partly because it was achieved in a less dramatic fashion , but mostly because I had nothing left . |
| 18 | It was conducted in a in a devastating effect because was totally unchecked and America got the upper hand and they simply played the game by their own favour without giving due consideration to humanitarian or , or even the justice er element and this , this is how the world 's gon na be , and America is an arrogant super power . |
| 19 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 20 | It was covered in a white cloth ; there were some flowers , plates , the metal things that Marcus picks his food up with , sparkling glasses . |
| 21 | The first part of the manuscript , under an early title ‘ Too late beloved ’ , was rejected as unsuitable by Tillotson and Son — with whom a fee of a thousand guineas had already been agreed — by Murray and by Macmillan , before it was accepted in a revised form for serialisation in The Graphic . |
| 22 | In seeking an answer to this question one can not but be influenced by a thought expressed by Lamont J. , speaking for the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille where , for the first time , it was accepted in a superior court that an infant plaintiff should be able after birth to recover damages for pre-natal injuries . |
| 23 | It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom . |
| 24 | Ever since it was formed in a merger 55 years ago , ICI 's portfolio has had to change with the times . |
| 25 | It was formed in a small oblong , one side rounded , the other almost straight . |
| 26 | The book casued a stir when it was serialised in a Sunday newspaper … with new revelations about Gazza 's problems off the field , including an eating disorder . |
| 27 | It was situated in a post-war housing estate on the outskirts of Greenock and suffered from the same sort of social and economic problems found in the working class communities elsewhere . |
| 28 | It was destroyed in a hangar fire at Old Sarum in January 1987. — Ed . ) |
| 29 | It was destroyed in a collision with a hill at 950 feet . |
| 30 | It had stood here for 300 years — a revolutionary building when it was built … until it was destroyed in a fire in 1952 . |