Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on to floor and it runs , it just , it ran down into corner , there 's a a wheel , thing , and the cheek well it 's a a pulley wheel , and it , it were looking round the big handle at pulley wheel at me . |
| 2 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 3 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 4 | It also gives some indication of the pattern of the sexual division of labour as it was developing in the late 1960s . |
| 5 | There was growing dissatisfaction with the Church and in particular with the way it was developing in the late twelfth century . |
| 6 | As they got closer , they saw it was rising from a burning truck . |
| 7 | Then it was a different sort of regiment because it was dealing with a different sort of enemy . |
| 8 | At the international level , the US went into the crisis thinking that it was dealing with a second-division military power led by an incompetent petty dictator . |
| 9 | It was learning at an early age that her natural mother had abandoned her which sent the shock waves vibrating through her childhood , adolescence and early adulthood . |
| 10 | It was protesting about the proposed sale of British Telecom to private industry and the threatened guillotine on the committee stage of the Bill . |
| 11 | Rejecting this accusation , China claimed that it was drilling on the Chinese side of a north-south boundary line in the Gulf of Tonkin agreed in 1887 by China and France , Vietnam 's then colonial ruler . |
| 12 | It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom . |
| 13 | It was feeding near a local rubbish dump and I did not attempt to approach it since there 's a barbed wire fence round the dump and I am seventy-three and no longer climb fences . |
| 14 | When it was pointing at the far corner of the floor , it emitted a stream of high-pitched bleeps . |
| 15 | It was tumbling through the black curtain . |
| 16 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 17 | If the National Health Service Management Executive was to tackle this issue it might find that it was pushing at an open door . |
| 18 | The hotel had become his home , and it was fitting in the new Egypt that he should own It . |
| 19 | It was moving at an incredible speed through the green desert . |
| 20 | The policeman and a colleague stopped the van ‘ for no other reason than it was moving in the early hours of the morning , ’ a detective at the scene said . |
| 21 | The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties . |
| 22 | It was looking for a new programme and trying to consolidate its confused followers . |
| 23 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 24 | I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy . |
| 25 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 26 | This was because it was acting in a public capacity . |
| 27 | From the rickety bridge I looked upwards to the waterfall , perhaps fifty feet above us ; at the spot where it vanished into ferns and flowers it was frothing like a diaphanous white ball gown . |
| 28 | A little cluster of it was growing among the damp rock ledges between Big Allen and Mottle Foin near where the Hilder ran down . |
| 29 | It was lying beside the great old Bible that goes by the name of John Brown of Haddington . |
| 30 | Although the shuttle has returned safely to Earth on each of its six nights so far , the orbiter managed on its most recent mission to nudge the tracking and data-relay satellite it was carrying into the wrong position . |