Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bastards who planted it were hiding in the trees , so Donald did n't see them and could n't have expected what was about to happen . |
| 2 | It also gives some indication of the pattern of the sexual division of labour as it was developing in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | There was growing dissatisfaction with the Church and in particular with the way it was developing in the late twelfth century . |
| 4 | All the houses looked like Gloucester in the olden days andf it was snowing in the streets . |
| 5 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 6 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 7 | The hotel had become his home , and it was fitting in the new Egypt that he should own It . |
| 8 | The policeman and a colleague stopped the van ‘ for no other reason than it was moving in the early hours of the morning , ’ a detective at the scene said . |
| 9 | Poo I think it was laying in the boiler cupboard on top of the shoes this morning . |
| 10 | It was stifling in the room — hot , stifling air . |
| 11 | I did find the window open , and locked it myself because of the way it was rattling in the wind . |
| 12 | Anna 's went out while it was resting in the ashtray for a moment . |
| 13 | With the stake firmed in the hole , hold the tree up with a simple string loop , and plant it just as you would for a bush — except that , without the bud to go by , you will have to look carefully for the soil ‘ tide mark ’ where it was growing in the nursery and finish off to that height , with the standard stem about 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) from the stake . |
| 14 | Both times it was retrieved but in 1966 , while it was lying in the field just three days before it was due to be raised , the top half was stolen by a gang from Aberford again . |
| 15 | 15–4 The body of Malcolm MacKinnon was found near Schouler on Daill farm and it was remarkable that it had not been found sooner as it was lying in the vicinity of a well from which water was being drawn daily . |
| 16 | It was aggravating in the extreme to discover him there , just when she had hoped to find the launch deserted . |
| 17 | ‘ Launch ’ is an apt term : it was never his intention to control or manipulate the Council , for it was a sovereign body under his presidency ; his duty was to see that it was heading in the right direction . |
| 18 | It was happening in the summer and autumn of that year , and having now established who he was , people in the movie business were asking if this was going to be his big break , while out there in the communes and on the streets , the rebels were electing him and Hopper , and , to a lesser degree , Fonda , their champions . |
| 19 | It was plunging in the direction of the hole . |
| 20 | And it was going in the farm there . |
| 21 | No it was going in the book . |
| 22 | He said it was going in the level two book . |
| 23 | She says that it was spinning in the road . |
| 24 | Uri Lubrani , co-ordinator of Israeli government activities in Lebanon , stressed in reply that Israel would not exercise the same restraint in south Lebanon that it was showing in the face of Iraqi missile attacks . |
| 25 | It was sitting in the old swivel chair in the manager 's office , reading a paper . |
| 26 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |