Example sentences of "[vb past] it [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went into the garden and I found it was pouring with ram- . |
| 2 | I think that announcement was actually made I told it was going to be and has committed to support D R D A two and that effectively provides an alternative A P I perhaps as O D B C with Microsoft 's backing will become the norm in the P C environment , D R D A will be in the I B M environment . |
| 3 | However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions . |
| 4 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 5 | When it hit it was travelling at more than 400 miles an hour : no one expected it , and hundreds of Japanese living along the coasts of Hokkaido and Honshu were drowned . |
| 6 | As they got closer , they saw it was rising from a burning truck . |
| 7 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 8 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 9 | I saw it was coming from Mr Rochester 's door , which was slightly open . |
| 10 | Mrs Mentle and I both felt it was touching of Pugh to place a sticker in the back of the hearse which read ‘ Do n't follow me , follow Athletico Whaddon . ’ |
| 11 | He just could n't get a decent length to putt to fall , and I felt it was getting to him . |
| 12 | I met Mr Palmer outside the T & A building and I just felt it was going to be a bit of a funny day . |
| 13 | And our one person was Terry Phipps from Abingdon , he 's on the line at the moment , Terry well , you felt it was going to be one nil did you or ? |
| 14 | ‘ The bastards who planted it were hiding in the trees , so Donald did n't see them and could n't have expected what was about to happen . |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as I stood up I knew it was going to be bad . |
| 16 | Manager Eric Sortwell said : ‘ We knew it was going to be busy but not as busy as this . ’ |
| 17 | With this attitude , despite the bad start , we knew it was going to be a Happy New Year after all , and set about restoring some order to our home … , . |
| 18 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 19 | The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right . |
| 20 | I was No 1 in my sophomore year , and I knew it was going to be even tougher to be a top ranking player on the Pro-Tour . ’ |
| 21 | You knew it was going to be awful , but you had to know . |
| 22 | ‘ You knew it was going to be like this , Frank , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ You knew it was going to be me , ’ he said . |
| 24 | AS SOON AS YOU AWOKE you knew it was going to be hot . |
| 25 | Luke grinned , and suddenly she knew it was going to be all right . |
| 26 | Somehow she had to learn to live with the pain of the deception and get on with her life , but she knew it was going to be the hardest thing she had ever had to do . |
| 27 | I knew it was going to be the red Sierra . ’ |
| 28 | SCO claims it was misunderstood all those long months we thought it was decommitting from ACE , shuffling the MIPS work back to DEC and favouring Intel . |
| 29 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 30 | They thought it was dying from old age , but I did n't think so , though , to tell the truth , I was n't quite sure what was wrong with it . |