Example sentences of "[adv] it was [vb pp] and " in BNC.

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1 Aye you you 'd be blast it down It was drilled and blasted .
2 The good news is that Interiors is n't on video , so there 's no need to revisit this austere tale of middle-class American family breakdown , no matter how slickly it was filmed and acted .
3 Still it was appreciated and that s the main thing .
4 At an in-service course which she led three months later it was proposed and agreed that a working party should be set up to produce a draft policy for links with parents and the community .
5 Like everywhere else down here it was cramped and lightless , and there were books and files and heaps of dusty papers wherever she looked .
6 References by Miller 's contemporaries to his Gardeners Dictionary already mentioned have shown how widely it was used and appreciated both in Britain and abroad during the eighteenth century .
7 I knew from my family history I was likely to be vulnerable to cancer and luckily it was diagnosed and treated in time .
8 This book is , therefore , concerned with what social policy is , how it was created and how it was implemented , as well as with its weaknesses and arguments about what it should be .
9 It helped with how it was presented and may be cutting down on what was presented .
10 The stuff of it , how it came to be , how it was shaped and turned and moved , still evades me .
11 When he stands alone in such a place confronted by several police officers , usually some of high rank , the dice are loaded against him , especially as he knows there is no one to corroborate him as to what exactly occurred during the interrogation , how it was conducted and how long it lasted ’ .
12 The 210-ft telescope at Parkes was completed in 1961 , some four years after the 250-ft Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank , and in the second part of the book we are told how it was funded and built .
13 In particular , it is worth examining earlier occasions when change was handled effectively and then explore how it was done and what skills and methods were used .
14 I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step .
15 Bellowing ‘ Vatch me ! ’ he took off to show how it was done and then stood chatting at the bottom while we failed to do it .
16 For the police squad it was a new experience , but they had seen how it was done and all landed safely .
17 The very characteristic marks left on the mire show how it was made and this can indicate the likely age of a piece .
18 It can be used to show almost anything , from what an object looked like to how it was made , how it was used and how it was found .
19 Naturally neither the NSA nor GCHQ will discuss the subject since such telephone tapping is illegal but in 1976 the NSA 's Harvest computer system intercepted 75 million individual telephone conversations alone around the world , of which 1.8 million were considered sufficiently interesting to require further human analysis , although what happened to the information the NSA had collected and how it was shared and used remains a mystery .
20 However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed .
21 In order to understand how the Children 's Hearing system works , it is necessary to go back to the beginning and explain how it was established and how it was intended to operate .
22 And then it was boiled and boiled that it was er tender and that and then it was taken out and cut into bits and this is what a potted head And then it was That was done and then er Where the water what was boiled there was often fat but that was all skimmed off , and er next day there was as much water in the And er meat from the head was put in and pepper and salt and that , and then it was boiled again and then put into little dishes and that was your potted head .
23 Then it was gone and he answered mildly : ‘ On the machair .
24 She looked up then and saw a flicker of doubt in his dark eyes and then it was gone and he shrugged .
25 Then it was gone and he was saying , ‘ I thought you might sleep in this morning .
26 In the past , the farmer 's wife or daughters made the cheese and then it was matured and ripened on a shelf near the cooking range .
27 Then it was done and the old man slumped forward , the knife buried deep in his chest .
28 Sam spent the next morning poking his broom everywhere it was wanted and a few places it was n't until he had swept up several titbits of very interesting information .
29 Initially it was founded and financed by the Corporation of the City of London and 16 of the livery companies , hence its name .
30 Erm it was still pretty marginal er but er at least it was opened and erm in eighteen er it carried on until , in eighteen seventy , seventy one , the line was extended back to or a station roughly halfway between the two .
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