Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | When Sophie did these vaccinations in the pet shop Mr Miller held each patient so firmly and expertly that the recipient hardly noticed was was happening until it was over , but in the surgery it was sometimes traumatic . |
| 3 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 4 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 5 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 6 | And I saw it and everybody in the whole room saw it and burst out laughing cos it was so funny . |
| 7 | You 'd be walking if it was n't for me . |
| 8 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 9 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 10 | That section states that a person convicted of taking without consent is liable to pay compensation for any — and I emphasise that word — damage to the property ’ occurring while it was out of the owner 's possession ’ and that such damage is to be treated as ’ having resulted from the offence , however and by whomsoever' the damage was caused . ’ |
| 11 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |
| 12 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 13 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 14 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 15 | Or schools get very excited by computer-assisted learning , ordering equipment and retraining teachers — only to find that the pupils , so full of enthusiasm three years ago , have totally lost interest , while the ‘ experts ’ are once again suggesting that it was n't such a good idea after all . |
| 16 | The the reconciliations suggesting that it was n't a good stock take . |
| 17 | I also remember that on that occasion some cautious , niggly comments circulated , suggesting that it was somehow out of order to rejoice in this magnificent sound . |
| 18 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 19 | Yet the Declaration of Rights made no provision for regular Parliaments ; it merely stated that " Parliaments ought to be held frequently " , and even then it was the last demand made in the document , suggesting that it was not a particularly high priority . |
| 20 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 21 | I think Steve you were you were suggesting that it was only the G three T one . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems feasible therefore that subinfeudated and honorial vills may have differed in village planning policies … suggesting that it was under honorial administration that they [ regular village plans ] were most likely to be established . ’ |
| 23 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 24 | That 's with me , seeing that it was so long before it was diagnosed , that 's why my feet and hands are still paralysed . |
| 25 | However , many visitors to the Locks have gone away without realising that it was also the location for one of the more fascinating engineering feats of the canal era , an ‘ Inclined Plane ’ which lifted boats up the steep Foxton escarpment on the Grand Union Canal , enabling them to avoid the climb through the narrow locks , which was both wasteful of water and time-consuming . |
| 26 | But , realising that it was n't very good manners to sit there bemoaning her lot , she made a huge attempt to get over her disappointment , and trotted out lightly , ‘ Oh well , perhaps it 's fortunate that I find Mariánské Láznë quite an enchanting place . ’ |
| 27 | I lay there realising that it was not true , but also realising something else . |
| 28 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 29 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 30 | Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity . |