Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was getting through to the readers on a human level that counted . |
| 2 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 3 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 4 | It was pushed up to the top of the page . |
| 5 | It was pointed out to the young man that Philip was the chairman of CUM . |
| 6 | It was pointed out to the Special Branch man behind the screen that the police team investigating the murders had no knowledge of his information and he was asked why he had not passed it to them . |
| 7 | When it was pointed out to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) that his taxes would rise , the right hon. and learned Gentleman seemed surprised : what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , in effect , was that taxes under Labour would ’ only ’ rise higher than those in any other G7 country — lower , perhaps , than taxes in Albania , but higher than those of all our competitors . |
| 8 | The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’ |
| 9 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 10 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 11 | Actually the church had no tower — it was matted on to the exterior and the interior was built in the studio . |
| 12 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 13 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 14 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 15 | It was handed over to the National Trust in 1956 . |
| 16 | After the Merlin was inspected by Aviation Jersey it was shipped back to the USA for rebuild by Vintage V12 , returning to the UK later in the year . |
| 17 | The north wing of the school would have made three extra units , but as it was rented out to the health club , the new owners decided to maintain this arrangement . |
| 18 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |