Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOOVER has defended the controversial transfer of £28m from its pension fund , denying it was being used just to cover losses from the ‘ free flight ’ fiasco . |
| 2 | Peter : Yes he has indeed he delivered , he did away with the autocue , he leaned forward , he did n't want a barrier between himself and his adoring party faithful they were adoring it was rather like the last night at the Prom , I can tell you . |
| 3 | Wendy betrayed by Rhoda 's desire for Ken : betrayed by the author of her own being : no wonder she had faded out of the world so quietly and gently and quickly , as if understanding it were better she had never been born . |
| 4 | The FT-SE failed to hold its gains yesterday but shortly after opening it was only six points away from last September 's previous record closing level . |
| 5 | On opening it was seen to be empty . |
| 6 | The Labour foreign affairs spokesman , Mr George Foulkes , yesterday demanded a government statement announcing it was abandoning the plan . |
| 7 | Introducing direct rule had been easy enough ; ending it was a problem . |
| 8 | Although President Nixon may have come to the White House committed to ending the war in Vietnam , it just so happened that his way of ending it was to escalate it . |
| 9 | WHEN Susan Allen decided she had had enough of life at the age of 25 her method of ending it was all too easy . |
| 10 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 11 | As the intention in this study was to have subjects make estimates while they were driving it was decided that this would be unnecessarily difficult . |
| 12 | David Brabham says his father has not got fond memories of Le mans because when he was driving it was wet and foggy … the weather was very bad … but David says he looks forward to it now because it is a classic event … he says its his first year with Jaguar at le mans |
| 13 | This word was also to be read aloud , and the time taken to start pronouncing it was recorded . |
| 14 | After rebuilding it was a Gas Fitters Shop , and at present the ground floor houses the Railway Veterans Club and the second storey contains a gymnasium . |
| 15 | Similarly for ‘ punchball ’ , the predominant way of signing it was threefold : shape ( ball on a stick ) , movement ( springs to and fro on a pivot ) and how a person interacts with it ( hands punching alternately ) ; these three are salient features . |
| 16 | At seven o'clock on a chilly Saturday evening in November , the shroud of darkness enveloping it was a kindness as far as Captain Roddy Simcox was concerned . |
| 17 | a car seat a week ago , it was an absolute , I could not stop laughing it was so funny ! |
| 18 | Cheshire County Council is planning to sell off its fire station on Tarporley High Street after a new station replacing it was completed . |
| 19 | What they ‘ d just seen was an excerpt from his full-length film Is There Sex After Death ? , a blue movie parody that he ‘ d made on a very tight budget — so tight in fact that the only way he could think of promoting it was to call a press conference — of a sort ! |
| 20 | And then today when I was passing it was just munching away in the corner , you know . |
| 21 | ‘ Our romance was like Mills and Boon and we kept pinching ourselves , believing it was a dream and we would wake up soon . ’ |
| 22 | I read the hands of the clock wrongly , thought it was 5.10 , and awoke with a jump , believing it was five minutes before the start of the marathon . |
| 23 | Like a scene from Whisky Galore they approached the boat stealthily , initially believing it was a matter of life and death . |
| 24 | His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband . |
| 25 | Mr Day , 32 , pointed dad Frank 's air rifle at the boy believing it was unloaded . |
| 26 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 27 | We gave you this faith believing it was good , but innumerable people have been slain — Julius , Gabriel , Takla Giorgis , Sarsa Kristos , and now these peasants . |
| 28 | I thought it might be — that 's why I went back to Hong Kong , so I would n't be tempted to see you and start believing it was n't . |
| 29 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 30 | Jason Prior was going to come out of this shining like a knight in armour while she would be condemned to eternal darkness , everyone believing it was her fault . |