Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 3 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 4 | It was getting on for 5 o'clock and the village were batting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 7 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 8 | It was getting on for Tony-Coton-at-Man-City-last-august standards . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 14 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 15 | ‘ It was tailored just for me ’ |
| 16 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 17 | When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year . |
| 18 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 19 | It was exchanged later for a black Old English sheepdog owned by some relatives of ours at Piercebridge . |
| 20 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 21 | His friend Mr Goodman claimed it was written just for him ! ) |
| 22 | It was made easier for companies to set up their own schemes and for the first time everyone would be given the right of a personal pension of their own . |
| 23 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |
| 24 | It was made out for £2m from the Football Trust , but should have been £1m . |
| 25 | The water leak was discovered in Kozloduy 's sixth reactor after it was shut down for repairs and modifications [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 26 | By now , it was raining enough for the covers to go on over at Wimbledon . |
| 27 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 28 | ‘ The worry was that the ankle might go during a game and that is why it was felt best for me to play in the reserves . |
| 29 | Cos it was rejected apparently for |
| 30 | The first of those from Viola was addressed in fact to ‘ Dear Walter and Hilda ’ , but it was not difficult to guess that it was intended primarily for Walter 's eyes . |