Example sentences of "raining and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been raining and the read was wet . |
| 2 | It was raining and her nightgown was drenched . |
| 3 | That 's where us used to go up night times when it was raining and that cold . ’ |
| 4 | It was raining and it was threatening . |
| 5 | It is raining and he is hostile but beauty always moves the goal-posts ; no sooner has he said , ‘ Go away . |
| 6 | If we went out in the morning it was raining and fine in the afternoon , and then it rained when we went out in the afternoon after a fine morning . |
| 7 | It was raining and they travelled on the bus in silence . |
| 8 | It may not sound much , but if it is raining and you are wet and tired , it becomes a big job . |
| 9 | It 's raining and shining on a high-rise tower , |
| 10 | If it had been grey and raining and chilly he might have taken one look at Wyvis Hall and turned tail and fled to Crete or Delos or somewhere . |
| 11 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 12 | For example , is the utterance ‘ It 's raining and we 'll get wet ’ an example of reporting and recognising related aspects of experience , or is it an example of recognising causal relationships under logical reasoning ? |
| 13 | Do it in daylight , in the dark , when it 's raining and in windy conditions . |
| 14 | In her memory it was always raining and always cold . |
| 15 | Thus the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that it is raining and the statement ‘ Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories . |
| 16 | Even if it 's raining and even if you have no stomach to work ? |
| 17 | But it was raining and instead of a caped policeman greeting us declaring ‘ It 's the work of a madman if you ask me , Mr Holmes ’ , it was Bill Baker , Convocation Chairman , offering us coffee and biscuits . |
| 18 | Again , we assert it since we accept ( i ) an independent nomic conditional roughly to the effect that in the world as it is , and within certain large limits as it might be , if it is raining and certain other things are the case , then the balcony is wet , and we also accept ( ii ) that those other things are the case . |
| 19 | What is the explanation of why I am right to conclude , as I am , that if it is raining and certain other things are true , the balcony is wet and , in brief , that it would be wet no matter what else were true ? |
| 20 | The curtains were half drawn back , it had stopped raining and there was sunshine . |
| 21 | It was raining and there was this walkie-talkie twisting around my head , there was police hats rolling in the road , and they radioed in for assistance . |
| 22 | It is raining and the men wear woolly hats , collars up , necks down . |
| 23 | It was still raining and a strong wind was blowing . |
| 24 | Even the boring days outside when it 's raining and you 've finished the paper and you do n't know how you 'll last till bedtime are days to savour , compared to drying up in a cell . |
| 25 | It was raining and had become messy underfoot . |
| 26 | Since it was raining and why not ? |
| 27 | It starts raining and they rush for the car , where they have an afternoon sleep . |
| 28 | It was raining and he decided to drop her outside the front door , sheltered as it was by the portico with two columns . |
| 29 | It smells different when it 's been raining and our clothes are wet . |
| 30 | But it had been raining and the surface of the yard had been washed clear of any traces . |