Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was worth getting back to Paul 's route for it soon brought us to Hardy 's birthplace , a small thatched cottage just outside Higher Bockhampton . |
| 2 | Eyeing the police car , she wondered whether it belonged to Officer Hassan and whether it was worth hanging around for a word with him . |
| 3 | Not a word I would of thought it was worth finding out the meaning of . |
| 4 | Obviously he 'd decided it was worth putting up with the foul-smelling smoke for the sake of picking Michael 's experienced brain . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him we were thinking of putting someone on to the story , and needed to know if it was worth following up . |
| 6 | Carella explained his idea to me , and I thought it was worth following up . |
| 7 | The England football captain has appeared on Simon 's show and it was after reading out the press report announcing that Gary 's wife Michelle is going to have a baby , that Simon told the world he was going to be a dad , too . |
| 8 | It was like counting down to an explosion . |
| 9 | On clear days it was like flying over an Atlas map of the British Isles and I picked out all the familiar landmarks in about two hours , which had probably taken me days to cover by sea . |
| 10 | It was like ordering in ; which I guess it was . |
| 11 | He said it was like taking over their house , ’ Haverford remembered . |
| 12 | ‘ In a way it was like taking out a full-page ad in the New York Times , ’ he grins . |
| 13 | It was like filling in the blank spaces on a form and equally unprofitable . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 15 | As one Shell executive remembers of his visits : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 16 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 17 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 18 | In Vancouver we began with a Beethoven overture , and the first chord — it was like picking up a sponge , there was no body in the tone . |
| 19 | It seems stupid now but you ca n't imagine what it was like stumbling about in the dark and then seeing him daubing away … whoever heard of painted flowers … ’ |
| 20 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 21 | When Dannii ( as she likes to be known ) was seven she first learned what it was like to lose out to the star quality of her sister . |
| 22 | It was like switching over from an old black and white film . |
| 23 | It was like looking down the eye of a hurricane . |
| 24 | Suddenly it was like living out a Grade B TV movie . |
| 25 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 26 | It made sense , of course , but to give up direct production of national network features , which I had originated and perfected , was a wrench ; it was like putting out one 's own child for adoption . |
| 27 | But then … it was like waking up out of a bad dream . |
| 28 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |
| 29 | It is probably impossible to recapture with any approach to accuracy or completeness the atmosphere of a past age but , happily , in the 1930s a former member of the Edenderry congregation left an account of what it was like to grow up in that distant time . |
| 30 | But let us begin instead with Héléne Cixous 's remarkable account of what it was like to grow up as an Algerian French Jewish girl at that time : |