Example sentences of "[adv] it was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it was taking every atom of her will-power to stop that hand from doing what it longed to do — namely rise up and tangle with the silky black hair that curled so invitingly round Guido 's left ear . |
| 2 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 3 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 4 | I 'd have been a lot more worried if I 'd known how much it was going to be … |
| 5 | Basically it was receiving telephone calls from the public erm and using that information to put on a computer to send officers to incidents various incidents . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was seeing signs advertising ‘ Blogg 's Beer ’ that led East Enders to immortalise the name Bloggs as the Cockney equivalent of Mr Everyman . |
| 7 | Sherriffe , a raw bustling wing , also showed that he knew his way to the line , but perhaps it was fitting that the elusive Purdy should be credited with his side 's final try . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was coming to get me ! |
| 9 | He said oh he says perhaps it was gon na be a surprise |
| 10 | Perhaps it was asking too much of Oxford , who have not won a game for a month , to exercise the same shrewd control at half-back demonstrated by Farr-Jones and Porta . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was freezing itself out of spite . |
| 12 | Coming to the 18th , he said he 'd never had five birdies in a row , and I thought perhaps it was going to stay that way because he put his second way through the green . |
| 13 | It would doubtless hoot derisively as it drew level ; perhaps it was carrying poisons , enema pumps and cream tarts , or supplies for chemists and mathematicians . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was dying that was the bravest thing a person could do ? |
| 15 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 16 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was reassuring to ponder the primeval origins from which man 's ascent had commenced long , long ago . |
| 18 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 19 | By the shore the driftwood was still travelling upriver , but in midstream it was gathering way headlong in the other direction . |
| 20 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 21 | So it was swinging back and forth almost coming to the rock and we thought well if that mine goes off that 's the end of it . |
| 22 | I tried to pull the post out but I could n't , it was about six feet long and so it was dragging on the ground . |
| 23 | So it was transporting coal in and out of the pit ? |
| 24 | It did n't have much friction , so it was going along there alright . |
| 25 | no so it was saying how times have changed , but they used to be very , very stuck up and it showed some of the early programmes and how people used to talk , oh so frightfully posh and so frightfully gorgeous and the words , and , it 's rather pleasant is n't it , really rather nice |
| 26 | Our Scott woke up one Saturday night about half past about eleven o'clock it was screaming , I said what 's the matter , , I thought I , but he do n't never ever cry really did . |
| 27 | It was to be 1858 before the government explicitly extended freedom of speech , but inadvertently it was beginning to relax as early as 1856 . |
| 28 | Although the first issue for 1858 welcomed the Nazimov Rescript with a banner headline , and although Herzen freely acknowledged that Alexander II had earned his place in history by setting the process of emancipation in train , by May 1858 The Bell had restarted its pressure for emancipation with land and soon it was insisting that much remained to be done before the process of reform bore fruit . |
| 29 | Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left . |
| 30 | Soon it was raining hard enough , Stephen noted dismally , to keep him off the moor for the evening . |