Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 2 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 3 | Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options . |
| 4 | Only a few years ago , in their efforts to quell the excessive and unhealthy use of laxatives , many doctors were insisting that it did not matter . |
| 5 | Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick . |
| 6 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 7 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 8 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 9 | I was drowning and it did n't hurt . |
| 10 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 11 | It was emptying but it 's started filling up again . |
| 12 | ‘ Who was driving when it went past the pub ? ’ |
| 13 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 14 | It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition . |
| 15 | The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst . |
| 16 | The transmission was short , but he was sweating when it ceased . |
| 17 | He says the state of the damage shows how fast the car was going when it crashed . |
| 18 | It 's lying in the same direction as it was flying when it came down — north-east to south-west . |
| 19 | Colchester North MP , Bernard Jenkin , was speaking as it emerged that the Danes had approved the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum by 56.8 per cent to 43.2 pc . |
| 20 | Linda was holding and it blew . |
| 21 | I did n't realize what I was saying but it proved to be true . |
| 22 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 23 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |
| 24 | Implicitly , the Government was saying that it knew what the problems were , and how they could be tackled . |
| 25 | I meant who was it that was saying that it does n't matter ? |
| 26 | She turned away , leaving Peggy standing stiff and cold , although the sun was shining and it had been in the seventies all day . |
| 27 | ‘ So I was upset I said I did n't want to , I was crying and it made him madder . ’ |
| 28 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 29 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 30 | Critics of the decision by the Bush administration said yesterday that continuing US production was destabilising because it encouraged countries capable of producing chemical weapons to begin developing new production lines immediately . |