Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month , it announced it was buying Specialty Coatings International , of the US , for £305 million via a £295 million cash call . |
| 2 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 3 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 4 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 5 | It had been a part of her intention in coming here to banish those shades : already it seemed they were darkening her mind as surely as they still lowered across her father 's . |
| 6 | When it seemed he was running out of support , Jason Little suddenly appeared inside him to take the scoring pass . |
| 7 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |
| 8 | Botham 's dismissal was the result of fine captaincy by Lloyd , for when it seemed he was going to bat sensibly Lloyd put on Richards , knowing full well Botham would not be able to resist trying to hit his friend out of the ground , and sure enough the sucker punch worked . |
| 9 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 10 | It seemed he was going to ignore her bitter little comment . |
| 11 | It seemed I was going to live : the doctors were cheerful , not cautious . |
| 12 | ‘ You see , Granny , ’ David went on , as it seemed she was expecting him to explain , ‘ Juliet was born at Thorn House , twenty years ago , on the same day as Donna , and she 's — oh — ! ’ |
| 13 | Since then he had tried to stay away from her , and it seemed she was doing the same , which did nothing to cool his interest . |
| 14 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It knew we were coming here you know , bless it . |
| 17 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | At the April 24 ACE Executive Advisory Board meeting that Compaq did n't attend because it knew it was going to resign , ACE decided to invite the Open Software Foundation , a non-member , to participate in some fashion . |
| 19 | It knew it was playing a role in history , and it rose to the occasion . |
| 20 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 21 | ‘ But when I was released , it meant we were starting from scratch . |
| 22 | In one way it was good to have success so quickly , but in another way it meant I was facing things for which I was n't really prepared . |
| 23 | it went they were racing like that , and a car come that way , so went that way |
| 24 | For a moment I thought he 'd flipped and reckoned he was Napoleon , when it clicked he was talking about Jo . |
| 25 | At times , especially following the leakage of so-called ‘ medical evidence ’ to a Sunday newspaper , it appeared he was acting independently . |
| 26 | The company sounded a note of caution yesterday when it said it was seeing margin pressure in some other areas of the business . |
| 27 | I put on my old trouser 's and welly boots this morning , it said it was going to be so messy . |
| 28 | It said he was driving dangerously and it was his car that hit the group . |