Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it was seeing me in ‘ his ’ shirt . |
| 2 | Erm , there 's a , at the back of that Royalty and Empire magazine , you know it was telling you about Madame Tussaud 's and the London Palladium , somewhere that the wax works that do all the rock and roll the , . |
| 3 | Who do you imagine it was using you for target practice this afternoon ? ’ |
| 4 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 5 | It was dragging him towards it through the stair-rails , its claws fastened in his flesh . |
| 6 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 7 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 8 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 9 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 10 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 11 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 12 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 13 | It was having lots of fun with Aunty 's woollen hat |
| 14 | There was nothing new in it to be discovered , and it was preventing them from making new discoveries elsewhere . |
| 15 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 16 | Tonight the Foreign Office insisted it was doing everything in its power to secure Paul Ride 's early release . |
| 17 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |
| 18 | It was sunning itself on the path . |