Example sentences of "it was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In the same letter Leech referred to a man who ‘ was brought into the Infirmary this morning with violent concussion of the brain occasioned by a fall from the mail coach as it was passing through Harrowden , he was much intoxicated at the time the accident happened . |
| 2 | Every time it lifted its head and pirouetted , it registered the new direction it was taking in relation to the sun . |
| 3 | ‘ It was getting on top of me . ’ |
| 4 | It was getting near time for communion . |
| 5 | It was getting near Christmas and we were both under pressure to get orders completed . |
| 6 | In the 1980–1 session , for example , it was catering for teachers of nearly twenty further education colleges within a radius of 100 miles of the Institute . |
| 7 | It showed that beneath the granite exterior emotion did exist , even if it was struggling for survival . |
| 8 | In the same breath as admitting that Lightning , the high-end , super-pipelined Sparc chip that it was developing in conjunction with LSI Logic Corp and Hyundai Electronics , was n't going to strike after all , Metaflow Technology also began to talk about a next-generation effort in design that would follow ( UX No 273 ) . |
| 9 | Rather the contrary , it was spreading to members of the community with no pre-Conquest memories . |
| 10 | Concerning costs , it has been reported in the financial press that FIMBRA merely had to take the word of Dunsdale that it was investing in gilts , as the SRO had too few staff to adequately deal with each individual firm . |
| 11 | We consent to that and your Lordship one direction to help us when we come to calculating interest is one of the earliest figures that your Lordship came to and it was dealing with care to date . |
| 12 | It was swarming with people . |
| 13 | It was daring of McChrystal to start with Bach on the saxophone , even if this sonata — normally for violin or flute — is of very doubtful authenticity . |
| 14 | But the Chinese embassy in Oslo , where the prize is awarded , reacted with accusations that it was meddling in China 's internal affairs , the stock response to any foreign commentary deemed hostile to China 's rule of Tibet . |
| 15 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 16 | It was snowing in July ! |
| 17 | It had established a fort at Kormartin in 1631 , but by the 1650s it was fading into bankruptcy . |
| 18 | It was unsettling for Dexter to walk the same corridor of frosted glass and fire extinguishers at TV London again . |
| 19 | And it was thinking of Barbara Coleman , what she had enjoyed and what she had become , that led Rain to a disturbing idea . |
| 20 | The trouble was , the clouds were piling in , the breeze was stronger , it was beginning to spatter down with rain . |
| 21 | SCO claims it was misunderstood all those long months we thought it was decommitting from ACE , shuffling the MIPS work back to DEC and favouring Intel . |
| 22 | However the total annual cost of the project at that time , extrapolating from the months when it was operating at capacity to produce a cost for a 12-month period , would have been £42,000 in Newham and £25,680 in Ipswich ( excluding the cost of the research ) ; see Table 6.6 . |
| 23 | By the time the polo was due to start it was teeming with rain ! |
| 24 | Although the Government 's recent decision to pull all atomic reactors from the sell-off programme and scrap the construction of three Pressurised Water Reactors was expected to freeze Britain 's civil nuclear programme for at least five years , BNFL yesterday disclosed that it was looking at ways of diversifying into generating power . |
| 25 | It was raining on Jimale , Chola and Mina had taken their claw-shaped wooden rakes and gone with a group of women to gather pine-needles in the forest . |
| 26 | You could lean into the wind and it was raining like blazes . |
| 27 | It was raining in earnest . |
| 28 | It was raining in gushes , sweet soft noisy rain over all the gardens and dusty earth , sluicing the stained pavements , dampening crusty brittle walls , running down the windows . |
| 29 | But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries . |
| 30 | Don McCullin also found moving on difficult , although it was breaking with war , rather than Vietnam , that was his main problem . |