Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were getting on late and I says and er were there , oh we 'll walk you home Sarah said alright then says come on let's go through woods . |
| 2 | In France the cabinet du ministre in the foreign ministry included from 1886 , under a number of slightly varying titles , a section which translated and analysed articles from the foreign press : by 1907 it was drawing on 175 newspapers for this purpose . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know whether it was like Howard Hughes and cleanliness , but it was going on that way . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , cos I did n't go out it was n't , you know it was going on eleven when I left here . |
| 5 | Last summer , Romania reportedly warned neighbouring Hungary it was working on nuclear weapons and a ballistic missile system . |
| 6 | It was , it was coming on lovely . |