Example sentences of "it was [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |
| 2 | Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright . |
| 3 | The next three-quarters of an hour were taken up with wondering why it was taking us so long to get from the airport to the Consulate , and what genius had decided to place the Consulate some hundreds of miles away . |
| 4 | I mean it 's far too technical an and I , I , I would n't either , but erm it 's er as I said , it 's just er it was struck me as coincidentally since I was talking about this , this today . |
| 5 | It was catching him up ! |
| 6 | I do n't know what it is , but it 's different , bringing her up to what it was bringing them up . |
| 7 | It was bearing her away . |
| 8 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 9 | It probably was n't economic in the very small town you know probably you know I do n't , I do n't remember people keeping pigs but if it was collected it probably was collected by the bin at the back door . |
| 10 | Later it was to lead him on to Oz , Ink , and Friends . |
| 11 | His emotional and intellectual development in Aden was such that it was to lead him inevitably back to France , back to emotional security with Rirette , and back to the political and social struggle from which he had escaped in a state of total disorientation a few months earlier . |
| 12 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 13 | I complained and although it was stopped I still got my books later . |
| 14 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 15 | The Factory had n't been specific ( it rarely is ) , but I had the feeling that whatever it was warning me about was important , and I also suspected it would be bad , but I had been wise enough to take the hint and check my Poles , and now I knew my aim was still good ; things were still with me . |
| 16 | He could n't know what an effort it was to push him away . |
| 17 | It was bothering me immensely . |
| 18 | It was discovered they too had been sabotaged . |
| 19 | After labyrinthine inquiries , it was discovered he once photographed a series of ducumentaries of which the Government disapproved . |
| 20 | and it said about tin cans and aluminium and that and it was costing them less excuse me to use recycled you know er used aluminium |
| 21 | and used steel cans and that it was costing them less to use that than it was to use |
| 22 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 23 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 24 | Yes and I thought it was mucking it up so I just swapped it over the way it was . |
| 25 | it was scorching them right through . |
| 26 | The whole idea behind it was to keep it really small and be really selective about who you work with . |
| 27 | ‘ It was told me before . ’ |
| 28 | Shows what a boost it was having you here . ’ |
| 29 | What is clear is that the Prison Service had failed to persuade these prisoners that it was treating them fairly ’ ( para 9.25 ) . |
| 30 | It was tearing her apart to know how much he must love the pale , blank-eyed girl . |