Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so scarring that it dominated perceptions in Moscow for years to come . |
| 2 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 3 | By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown . |
| 4 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
| 5 | The government has managed , by and large , to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992 . |
| 6 | Even though it caught his eyes , so that he was actually watching when it happened , the figure that leapt from the blackness was only a silvery blur , moving with breathtaking and unreal speed . |