Example sentences of "and it was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She needed to weep , but there was a pain in her throat and it was stopping the tears , so she laughed instead . |
| 2 | A Grand Jury in California handed up indictments against two officers of Symantec Corp alleging that they stole trade secrets from Borland International Inc after a six-month investigation by the district attorney 's office of Santa Cruz County , California into the allegations that a Borland officer brought confidential company material with him when he left Borland to join Symantec ; Symantec says that last it hired an independent law firm to look into the charges , and it was given the opinion that there was no crime committed and that none of the items constitute trade secrets . |
| 3 | And what was the action of the majority party then , over and it was to receive the report . |
| 4 | By 1977 the SCONUL Tape-Slide Group barely functioned as a producing agency , and it was renamed the SCONUL Section on Cooperative Production of Packages for User Education . |
| 5 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 6 | This plan argued that the renewal of the area should be based on the twin policies of the construction of social housing and industrial development , and it was to form the basis , in the late 1970s , of the Partnership established between the Labour government and the local authorities concerned ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 7 | This was the most fundamental fact about the movies in Britain and America and it was to remain the most important fact throughout the great years of the cinema 's hegemony . |
| 8 | And it was called the Daisy Field . |
| 9 | The only thing is another old place that in was Auchentipple There used to be a chapel there and it was called the Hunt Chapel , but it 's just a hunt now . |
| 10 | And it was called the |
| 11 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 12 | Re an article in the paper about and it was saying the mar in Marble Arch that it it 's got the top rating apparently . |
| 13 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |
| 14 | And it was feared the Government might change the rules for claiming dole , to reduce a vast social security budget swollen by recession . |