Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 2 | It was getting through to the readers on a human level that counted . |
| 3 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 4 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 5 | There was indeed , an air about the place : it was moving out of the west and by the late afternoon , gusting in winds up to 40 miles per hour , would turn over benches . |
| 6 | When I first saw it , it was hopping around in the bottom of one of the larger aviaries . |
| 7 | Her feelings had been mixed when she had seen who it was climbing out of the taxi . |
| 8 | It was curling out around the edges of the large double doors and for a moment or two Benny stopped and stared , then with a shout of alarm he ran across the road as fast as he could and pulled on the hanging padlock flap . |
| 9 | And it was going along through the woodlands , travelling like the river . |
| 10 | MORE plans have been submitted for a new town centre shopping complex in Ipswich — just days after a major retailer announced it was pulling out of the town . |
| 11 | Earlier this month , Habitat announced it was pulling out of the Buttermarket because of poor trading history and the secondary location of the store . |
| 12 | Berisford 's path was also smoothed when another contender , Marks & Spencer shoe supplier Fii , said it was pulling out of the bid battle and relisting its shares , which had been suspended pending the outcome . |
| 13 | It was coming over from the Empire , the colonies , as you know , and masses of grain coming in from America and Canada . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah ! ’ explained Jim , ‘ I wondered about that one , I shot it at dusk Sunday night as it was coming out of the ’ Grove ’ , that 's a small wood young lady' he explained . |
| 16 | In fact , it was coming back from the Tadcaster job that the old Atlas van that we had , blew up — the big ends just blew out of it and we had to dump it there and go . |