Example sentences of "it was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it was seeing me in ‘ his ’ shirt . |
| 2 | Erm , there 's a , at the back of that Royalty and Empire magazine , you know it was telling you about Madame Tussaud 's and the London Palladium , somewhere that the wax works that do all the rock and roll the , . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 5 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 6 | Who do you imagine it was using you for target practice this afternoon ? ’ |
| 7 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 8 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |
| 9 | When he addressed the audience it was to remind them of ‘ one of my lovely wives ’ — a sly reference to the Fifties tour when he was hounded by the British press because he had married a 13-year-old . |
| 10 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 11 | It was dragging him towards it through the stair-rails , its claws fastened in his flesh . |
| 12 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 13 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 14 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 15 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 18 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 19 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 20 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 26 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 27 | That was until the grid got into proper operation and the then they got nationalized then they they transferred back onto A C. It was to bring it into line to s to keep the town supplied through all the er cables that were were being constructed for D C. They had to bring the A C back to D C. That was converters . |
| 28 | It was having lots of fun with Aunty 's woollen hat |
| 29 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 30 | 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 . |