Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it only hours since she 'd been wishing that it had ? |
| 2 | The gunfire and noise in the woods had been lessening as it drew nearer and the targets became fewer . |
| 3 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 4 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 5 | Today , however , the Sun must be wishing that it had held that headline in reserve . |
| 6 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 7 | We 've managed to run our economy so that the pound has always been teetering before it fell ; the successful economies have been run so that the currency had to be suppressed . ’ |
| 8 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 9 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained . |
| 15 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 16 | He reckons the trip would have been smashing if it had been the height of summer but as it was , he saw practically nothing from start to finish . |
| 17 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 18 | I was drowning and it did n't hurt . |
| 19 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 20 | ‘ Who was driving when it went past the pub ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition . |
| 23 | The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst . |
| 24 | The transmission was short , but he was sweating when it ceased . |
| 25 | He says the state of the damage shows how fast the car was going when it crashed . |
| 26 | It 's lying in the same direction as it was flying when it came down — north-east to south-west . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Linda was holding and it blew . |
| 29 | I did n't realize what I was saying but it proved to be true . |
| 30 | 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 . |