Example sentences of "[v-ing] and it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 3 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 4 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 5 | This method is called density slicing and it was the technique used in the generation of the colour image shown on the front cover of this book . |
| 6 | I was n't listening and it was important that I should have picked that up . |
| 7 | Not strictly true , he was a lapsed communist , but Preston meant it to be provoking and it was . |
| 8 | Beryl was staring at him , her lips were trembling and it was clear that she was deeply disturbed . |
| 9 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 10 | It was raining and it was threatening . |
| 11 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 12 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 13 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 14 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 15 | Kisling , Lipchitz , Utrillo , all his friends were selling and it was bitter for him to realize that his work was not yet marketable , not to the public taste . |
| 16 | The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma . |
| 17 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 18 | The clouds had thinned , the sun was shining and it was almost warm enough to create the illusion of summer . |
| 19 | Fellers come running , bobbies come running and it was a right old dust-up . |
| 20 | I actually went back upstairs and because , I mean although , I mean I was dancing and it was a late night , I had n't been drinking so , you know , although I was , I was tired , you know I had n't been drinking and erm so I actually felt erm wide awake |
| 21 | But then you got three or four hundred a day coming and it was a little over-crowded . |
| 22 | and erm but the plane , the er boat was slow in coming and it was so hard to get a ship back then |
| 23 | The light was fading and it was getting difficult to distinguish what was happening . |
| 24 | The light was fading and it was getting cold ; Edward decided to pack it in . |
| 25 | Her mouth opened and shut ; then looking at Maggie she said , ‘ You silly daft lump , I thought you were joking and it was Simon you had brought back . ’ |
| 26 | At the turn of the century , Russian society was changing and it was the challenge of the autocracy to absorb these changes or push increasingly alienated social groups further into political and social isolation . |
| 27 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
| 28 | So I played on this really , really heavy cut by Michael Bolton — it was really rockin' and it was really cool . |
| 29 | Soon she was leaving and it was easy for him to be charming . |
| 30 | The Belgian group was now flourishing and it was anticipated that future activity for the Swiss and Dutch members would be coordinated by enthusiastic individuals . |