Example sentences of "it was [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it was seeing me in ‘ his ’ shirt . |
| 2 | Just as soon as it was cut you In fact you 'd to go er ev everybody , in that day , you 'd maybe have maybe thirty yards and you 'd all those l sheaves y that was your bit . |
| 3 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 4 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 5 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | For myself , I remember going home after the AGM at which the idea to start the new church was first announced , wondering if it was to involve us in leadership . |
| 9 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tonight the Foreign Office insisted it was doing everything in its power to secure Paul Ride 's early release . |
| 12 | I imagined it was to occupy her in her loneliness . |