Example sentences of "it [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 2 | It were flowing down the both ways down . |
| 3 | It was taking up the game at such a young age that caused him to hold the racket with both hands , rather than playing tennis , which he did to county standard at the age of 12 . |
| 4 | Used to the my whole down there than it was hanging up the , really I mean |
| 5 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 6 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 7 | It was picking out the spaces through the trees and making enchanting patterns among the bronzes and browns and greens , and occasionally highlighting spiders ' webs , laden with moisture . |
| 8 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 9 | The company formed to explore the sunken liner said it was carrying out the search with the French Institute for the Research and Exploitation of the Sea . |
| 10 | The goat went on climbing and nibbling , until it was peering down the chimney . |
| 11 | but that was n't with flood water coming over , that was because it was coming up the drains , cos it could n't drain into the river |
| 12 | By Tesco 's it was it was coming out the field . |