Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sweating now even though it was getting cooler . |
| 2 | Worse still , it was getting louder . |
| 3 | And it was getting colder . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought it was getting better , ’ he said , ‘ but the last couple of days it seems to have got worse . ’ |
| 5 | It was good , and it was getting better , and no matter what he did , all the old tricks that had always worked so well , the talking in the wings , blocking her when she was on stage , that voice never faltered . |
| 6 | It was getting worse . |
| 7 | You were so stubborn about it , you just kept saying everything was all right , and it was n't , it was getting worse all the time , and I could n't understand why you could n't see it . |
| 8 | It was getting worse . |
| 9 | ‘ It was getting worse and there were dangerous cross winds on the Mull airstrip . ’ |
| 10 | It was getting harder and harder to pretend to be ordinary . |
| 11 | Fire kept flashing in the cave , dazzling her , and it was getting harder and harder to think clearly . |
| 12 | Though it was getting harder to keep down . |
| 13 | It was getting harder and harder to fight Gesner . |
| 14 | Probably due to the newness of our sample , this proved quite difficult to do , but by the end of the test it was getting easier , either because the sleeve was wearing in , or because we were developing the knack — you must push the sleeve right back . |
| 15 | Speaking of the wind , it was getting stronger and I was getting colder . |
| 16 | By the time I passed the old creche again it was getting darker and the insects were out . |
| 17 | It was getting greener outside the windows , not exactly country but a lot of trees and leaves and green grass among the buildings . |
| 18 | But patterned though the country was — cut into straight-sided fields , dissected by ditches which ignored natural lines , crossed by lines of wired poles — it was getting greener by the mile . |
| 19 | A week after Miss Halford was re-suspended the police authority announced that it was bringing further disciplinary charges against her , following allegations that she made abusive late-night telephone calls to Mr Sharples , another senior officer and two members of the authority . |
| 20 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 21 | It was said softly , almost gently , yet the word itself was hard , the two sounds of which it was made stranger than anything Tuan Ti Fo had ever heard . |
| 22 | It was raining harder than ever . |
| 23 | Some of the South Africans are were last night understood to be unhappy that only the English anthem is to be played , but it was felt better not to cause more controversy in the light of Thursday 's threat by the African National Congress to call a halt to future tours . |
| 24 | The first great white flakes had melted on the pavements , now it was falling thicker and faster , building up on the window ledges and in the cricks and crannies , turning to slush on the roads as the traffic churned through it . |
| 25 | It was growing colder . |
| 26 | It was growing softer . |
| 27 | Every second it was growing louder , and suddenly it was no longer a small wind , it was a fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise that sounded as though some gigantic creature was breathing heavily through its nose as it galloped towards him . |
| 28 | It was growing brighter . |
| 29 | And it was going louder and louder and louder ! |
| 30 | Her husband 's jealous nature made it difficult for her to talk to any of the customers for very long without him questioning her , and it was becoming worse lately . |