Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not specify , even to herself , the harm that might come to Alice , but it was bound up with love , with loving a man . |
| 2 | It was farmed out to Broadway people to put together , and cost an enormous amount of money . |
| 3 | It was getting on towards moonset when they left the fields and entered the wood . |
| 4 | It was getting on towards 5 am and that left her only two hours before her husband got up . |
| 5 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 6 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 7 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 8 | It was getting on for 5 o'clock and the village were batting . |
| 9 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 10 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 11 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 12 | It was getting on for Tony-Coton-at-Man-City-last-august standards . |
| 13 | Soon she was completely absorbed , and when she finally straightened and looked at her watch she was staggered to find it was getting on for six o'clock . |
| 14 | By then it was getting on for lunchtime but , sauntering through the colonnade , she could n't resist first climbing a flight of stairs to take a look at some of the splendid Bohemian glassware on display . |
| 15 | ‘ I forgot the hour , ’ he added , and when Fabia , glancing at her watch , saw that , incredibly , it was getting on for three , she realised that when Ven was working it must be that he did n't give thought to food . |
| 16 | It was getting through to the readers on a human level that counted . |
| 17 | So I thought I 'd put in for that , it was a lateral move you know , but still it was getting back to my depot and nearer my home . |
| 18 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 19 | Andy Slater had organised and taken part in the race , but with its rapid growth it was getting out of hand and he decided to back out . |
| 20 | It was getting out of hand , like . |
| 21 | It was getting out of hand , the stupid innuendoes . |
| 22 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 23 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 24 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 25 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 26 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 27 | Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession . |
| 28 | They ha the er When it was cut up like that , in the house there was er |
| 29 | 77 percent of it was cut off in 1922 and called Trans-Jordan ; the remaining section was partitioned by the United Nations in 1947 . |
| 30 | It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’ |