Example sentences of "it [vb past] raining " in BNC.

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1 When it stopped raining , I walked streets like rivers to a travel agent and bought a ticket for a flight back to Lima — a real twitcher , in search of ‘ B ’ .
2 The sun broke through , it stopped raining at last .
3 The first time it stopped raining was on the ferry back from Boulogne .
4 It started raining in sparkling sheets , the technicians pouring water down from above his eyeline onto him .
5 Then it started raining .
6 When it started raining , three of us stayed dry under his ten-foot Waimea gun .
7 The , to add insult to injury , it started raining heavily .
8 When it started raining , however , he decided to spend the rest of the night in the shelter of the church , and finish his planting in the morning .
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