Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mr Fry was floating out there in the mistiness , and he was busy wallpapering too but he 'd got the paper in a mess — he 'd put the paste on it and picked it up paste side nearest and it was sticking to him . |
| 2 | The investment bank therefore had a powerful incentive to make sure its client won its bids , regardless of whether it was paying too much . |
| 3 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 4 | How about if it was smirring |
| 5 | Fortuna was smiling on me and my haphazard trip felt as if it was taking some kind of shape , a dynamic and a logic of its own . |
| 6 | Somewhere in the corridor , the basement door slammed and Jimmy watched everything as if it was taking place on a stage , and he was a member of the audience . |
| 7 | She swayed , and the colour felt as if it was draining from her face . |
| 8 | It would n't go in a straight line and kept squeaking , as if it was trying to draw the attention of the customs officers to the person pushing : ‘ Hey , take a look at this chap 's bags . ’ |
| 9 | The brain was throbbing rhythmically , looking as if it was trying to well up out of the hole in the scalp . |
| 10 | The hand was not quite flat : it looked as if it was trying to get up . |
| 11 | Folly 's face was too pink with the heat to blush any more , but it felt as if it was trying . |
| 12 | Why was her own heart starting to beat so hard again , frantically , as if it was trying to tell her something she could not or would not hear ? |
| 13 | I never said that — Jess thought , the ground feeling as if it was weakening under her feet . |
| 14 | It almost seemed as if it was moving further away with each stride . |
| 15 | The usual heavy roar of four Merlin engines was muted — it sounded as if it was limping . |
| 16 | It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live . |
| 17 | Sometimes it would stop and shine downwards , as if it was scanning the earth for something . |
| 18 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |
| 19 | It looked as if it was laughing at them . |
| 20 | Bernard 's voice sounded as if it was opening a fete , big-hearted and patronizing . |
| 21 | I could hardly breathe by the time I got there ; my chest felt as if it was bursting and my throat was clenched tight and my legs were quivering again . |
| 22 | Even if you are running Windows there is nothing stopping you from using your machine as if it was working under MS-DOS . |
| 23 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 24 | as if it was racing . |
| 25 | Its light flickered on and off for a moment , as if it was making itself comfortable in a mechanical kind of way . |
| 26 | Breath sobbing in his throat , hand clutched to the deep slashes in his bleeding chest , Cardiff saw the monstrous shadow of the thing smashing Peters ' rapidly liquefying body against the stairwell wall , as if it was beating a carpet . |
| 27 | The animals long ears are pinned back as if it was running , and a means of suspending the key is provided by a hole through the hound 's mouth . |
| 28 | She saw its mouth open and close as if it was attempting to address her . |
| 29 | She felt it probing her mind , as if it was asking her a question , searching for something in her mind . |
| 30 | The village looked as if it was dying . |