Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 2 | Failure of Antarctic sanctuary plan A French proposal for the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary was withdrawn when it became clear that it would not win the requisite 75 per cent level of support of IWC members . |
| 3 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 4 | ( None the less , it should be noted that a critical essay of Eliot 's was dismissed because it said " nothing new " three years later. ) 50 A. C. Ward , reviewing a book called The Trend of Modem Poetry in 1936 , notes the impossibility of achieving " neutrality in the face of the conflict between right and left groups in contemporary poetry " , and therefore applauds attempts to " bring the apparently isolated modernists into the main traditional stream of English poetry " . |
| 5 | From the seventeenth century onwards , much of this land to the south of the Wash was drained and it has been farmed intensively ever since . |
| 6 | Nothing was new in this White Paper : it was emphasized that it provided an outline of a long-term strategy rather than a programme of rapid action , so it was generally regarded as a due statement of concern and good intentions , and little more . |
| 7 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 8 | And that she said was repossessed and it went for seventy five thousand . |
| 9 | Unionist control of local government was resented because it represented minority control and the resentment was kept alive by accusations of discrimination in the allocation of council jobs and housing . |
| 10 | The sound began before our search was completed and it stopped me in my tracks , leaving Malc to continue alone . |
| 11 | It was stoned as it reached the Bogside ; Catholics clashed with the RUC ; and the Bogside Defence Association erected barricades . |
| 12 | I was drowning and it did n't hurt . |
| 13 | The conference was wrecked before it started by the " U2 " incident . |
| 14 | The empty 400ft Demetrius , being towed from Dunkirk in northern France to Greece for scrap , was wrecked after it ran aground at Prawle Point in south Devon . |
| 15 | But his three-second , 89-metre flight ended in disaster when his £700 glider was wrecked as it crashed into the sea . |
| 16 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 17 | The first rule of surviving a disaster , I had written , was to accept that it had happened and make the best of what was left . |
| 18 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 19 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 20 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 21 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 22 | It was emptying but it 's started filling up again . |
| 23 | This year a conditioner was added and it has cut more than 325ha ( 800 acres ) . |
| 24 | The value of prosection was stressed since it offered three dimensional knowledge to the medical students and post-graduates and many future surgeons would be trained to dissect and explore the body through these preparations . |
| 25 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 26 | ‘ Who was driving when it went past the pub ? ’ |
| 27 | Section 7(1) could be construed as applying to previous enactments , but it was argued that it applied also to subsequent enactments . |
| 28 | It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After some discussion on back-dating , the formula was accepted though it had only six months to live . |