Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And I saw it and everybody in the whole room saw it and burst out laughing cos it was so funny . |
| 3 | You 'd be walking if it was n't for me . |
| 4 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Never mind , it is a reckless , bloodthirsty tale , with Roland ultimately being punished for his hubris in refusing until it was too late to blow his oliphant , or horn , to summon back Charlemagne and the rest of the army to help his vastly outnumbered rear guard . |
| 9 | This crater was known as the Etang Sec , or dry tarn , a name worth remembering because it was later to become the focus of the eruption proper . |
| 10 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 11 | It was something to do with homing in more precisely on what had really happened , seeing if it was ever possible to pin down the truth . |
| 12 | Shannon held out her hand to both newcomers , wondering if it was simply her imagination that saw a coolly speculative gleam in Marianne 's eyes . |
| 13 | At the time I was very much in love , one of those adventures which seem of overwhelming importance at the time but , afterwards , leave one wondering if it was n't a kind of sickness . |
| 14 | I have put a wee bit of weight on , so I was wondering if it was maybe |
| 15 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 16 | To avoid the heat of the day we went out in the mornings , waking while it was still dark . |
| 17 | ‘ He will so — ’ agreed Anne gloomily , adding since it was clearly expected of her ‘ — God rest his soul . ’ |
| 18 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 19 | Still , sacrifices had to be made , though sometimes one could n't help wondering whether it was all worth while . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's all right , ’ responded Floy , warily , but even as he spoke he was wondering whether it was all right , and whether they might n't be better simply to walk back through the forest and on to the road . |
| 21 | Most people who have visited Pisa know that the Torre Pendente began toppling while it was still being built . |
| 22 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 23 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 24 | Well i i and if it cried well you let it cry , you just let it go on crying until it was so tired it went to sleep . |
| 25 | But Eva had to keep them away from him , saying if it was very urgent they could leave a note . |
| 26 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 27 | Under the 1984 Act , the PCA is empowered to : ( i ) choose , or veto the choice , of investigating officers , supervise their inquiries , and receive their final report ; ( ii ) monitor the speed and efficiency of the investigation and issue a statement to the Chief Constable saying whether it was satisfactorily carried out ; ( iii ) receive a Chief Constable 's decision on what action he intends to take as a result of an investigation and , if need be , overturn the decision ( either by preferring disciplinary charges or , if it believes an offence has been committed , referring the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions ) . |
| 28 | and you would have to say , that the benefit 's gon na be far more , far reaching than it was before . |
| 29 | Like a ship on a slow tide , she had moved away from him , without either of them knowing until it was too late and the drift could n't be stopped . |
| 30 | You know there 's twenty minutes you know and there 's half an hour of of tape when he thought he was taping when it was just running . |