Example sentences of "it was [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it was rammed down their throats it became a battle , and the manager lost . |
| 2 | It was passing over a bridge across the Jumna . |
| 3 | ‘ At the end of the day the politicians could decide not to give us it , and we 'd all look pretty silly if people pointed to 18 February and said ‘ but it was confirmed back then ’ . ’ |
| 4 | She did not specify , even to herself , the harm that might come to Alice , but it was bound up with love , with loving a man . |
| 5 | However , the public on Møn was a small one and the park was visited primarily by public servants from other parts of Denmark , whose job it was to plant out public places — and also by visitors to the Villa and The Tamarisks . |
| 6 | It was farmed out to Broadway people to put together , and cost an enormous amount of money . |
| 7 | There was a heavy entrance door that looked as if it might be airtight , but it was wedged back . |
| 8 | It was taking up the game at such a young age that caused him to hold the racket with both hands , rather than playing tennis , which he did to county standard at the age of 12 . |
| 9 | But he found it was taking up more and more time : ‘ It had to be double or quits , ’ he said . |
| 10 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 11 | You know it was taking up so much space . |
| 12 | It was taking out a girl with a trail of boasts littering the streets behind you , although you both returned as virginal as you had set off but usually much colder . |
| 13 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 14 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 15 | Later he inquired of the ‘ elderly autocrat ’ how it was getting on . |
| 16 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 17 | It was getting on towards moonset when they left the fields and entered the wood . |
| 18 | It was getting on for 5 o'clock and the village were batting . |
| 19 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 20 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 21 | There was more implied than said : it was Friday afternoon , it was getting on , the watering holes were filling up . |
| 22 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 23 | It was getting on for Tony-Coton-at-Man-City-last-august standards . |
| 24 | Soon she was completely absorbed , and when she finally straightened and looked at her watch she was staggered to find it was getting on for six o'clock . |
| 25 | By then it was getting on for lunchtime but , sauntering through the colonnade , she could n't resist first climbing a flight of stairs to take a look at some of the splendid Bohemian glassware on display . |
| 26 | ‘ I forgot the hour , ’ he added , and when Fabia , glancing at her watch , saw that , incredibly , it was getting on for three , she realised that when Ven was working it must be that he did n't give thought to food . |
| 27 | It was getting on towards 5 am and that left her only two hours before her husband got up . |
| 28 | It was getting through to the readers on a human level that counted . |
| 29 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 30 | So I thought I 'd put in for that , it was a lateral move you know , but still it was getting back to my depot and nearer my home . |