Example sentences of "it was [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 2 | It was having lots of fun with Aunty 's woollen hat |
| 3 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 4 | Tonight the Foreign Office insisted it was doing everything in its power to secure Paul Ride 's early release . |
| 5 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |