Example sentences of "it was [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was taking all her concentration to breathe normally , not be begin shaking again , with their arms linked and their bodies so close . |
| 3 | It was taking all the pleasure out of things and Maggie 's lips drooped like a disappointed girl 's . |
| 4 | It was taking all her powers of concentration just to keep warm . |
| 5 | And of course then when she had done it they used to fold it up they used to just get it then and go like that you know , and just fold it up and then when it was done all done you see , they 'd take it back to this here lady and then of course they used to pay you for it . |
| 6 | The guy who owns it was shouting all kinds of stuff and he let it slip . |
| 7 | The Finance Ministry announced on Oct. 8 that it was to punish all four by banning them from trading in equities for a period of one month . |
| 8 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 9 | It was remarkable in the circumstances that the First Symphony sounds as though it was written all at once in a burst of sustained inspiration . |
| 10 | Manicuring is boring actually , but it was meeting all those people , there was always something interesting to talk about because the people were so knowledgeable and travelled … you get all the kings and dukes and lords . |
| 11 | So it was watched all the while like that ? |
| 12 | The benefits will be very substantial and I believe this initiative could be as significant to us in the future as was SRS when it was introduced all those years ago . |
| 13 | It was crowded all through the day and Melanie and Aunt Margaret tottered on burning feet by the time they turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ closed ’ . |
| 14 | no , but it was upsetting all these journey |
| 15 | It was fought all the way to the European Court of Justice , which decided in his favour . |
| 16 | The leadership of the Radical Civic Union ( UCR ) , the main opposition party , announced on Sept. 24 that it was ending all co-operation with the government . |
| 17 | Whenever possible I try to get a Lecture Theatre , erm but I was told it was booked all day today we were originally in presentation room then came , so be grateful we 're in the Board Room . |
| 18 | Parreira , Gilmar , Calazans and many others maintain the championship has enormous potential if it was to run all year with matches just on Sundays , as in Italy . |
| 19 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
| 20 | Iraq announced on April 25 that it was withdrawing all but 50 of its security personnel from the allied " safe haven " for Kurdish refugees centred around Zakho . |
| 21 | If the government wanted to encourage a new trade in supplying meal to the populace , the last way to do it was to remove all profit from the enterprise . |
| 22 | And it 's as if it was n't floating on the surface and it was doing all the things that fishes do but it was |
| 23 | He refuses to elaborate except to add that ‘ it was rough-housing all the way ’ . |
| 24 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 25 | Boswell amplifies in a way which casts a slightly different glow on the affair : he comments on how striking it was to hear all the aldermen of Aberdeen drinking Johnson's-health with much exclamation of the great man 's name . |