Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was getting worse and there were dangerous cross winds on the Mull airstrip . ’ |
| 2 | It was getting harder and harder to pretend to be ordinary . |
| 3 | Fire kept flashing in the cave , dazzling her , and it was getting harder and harder to think clearly . |
| 4 | It was getting harder and harder to fight Gesner . |
| 5 | Speaking of the wind , it was getting stronger and I was getting colder . |
| 6 | By the time I passed the old creche again it was getting darker and the insects were out . |
| 7 | It was said softly , almost gently , yet the word itself was hard , the two sounds of which it was made stranger than anything Tuan Ti Fo had ever heard . |
| 8 | It was raining harder than ever . |
| 9 | The first great white flakes had melted on the pavements , now it was falling thicker and faster , building up on the window ledges and in the cricks and crannies , turning to slush on the roads as the traffic churned through it . |
| 10 | And it was going louder and louder and louder ! |
| 11 | And it was working better than she could have hoped . |
| 12 | Hari hurried back along the street anxious to get home , it was turning colder and the night was closing in . |
| 13 | It was blazing worse than the Church . |