Example sentences of "it was [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	It was snowing when she reached the side-road marked on the map , and she heaved a sigh of relief when she spotted the dark shape of a cottage .
2	It was only a small cut , but it was bleeding and she put her hand over it to try and stop it .
3	‘ It was flattering that they wanted to spend so much on me , ’ says Tara .
4	It was exhausting and she did not know enough to analyse each problem properly .
5	Well it was raining when they came .
6	It was raining as we drew up in front of the building and started unpacking our kit .
7	It was raining and they travelled on the bus in silence .
8	It was raining and he decided to drop her outside the front door , sheltered as it was by the portico with two columns .
9	It was touching that they cared about you . ’
10	It 's lying in the same direction as it was flying when it came down — north-east to south-west .
11	But the army said it was investigating whether he had a grenade when he was shot .
12	Anne thought it was growing as she stared at it .
13	It was emptying but it 's started filling up again .
14	Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt .
15	She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction .
16	The second came recently at Newlands , the imposing Cape Town stadium — at least , it was imposing till they tore out large bits to install even more corporate hospitality guzzlers — where by their second-half performance they imposed themselves on South Africa and crossed the final frontier of world rugby at a surging gallop .
17	It was going as they had planned .
18	‘ By wearing a uniform , it was saying that I resist democracy , rather than support it , ’ he said .

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