Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 2 | What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear ! |
| 3 | The skill of the teams of acrobats , performing all manner of diversionary handstands and somersaults on the ground between the bull and the spectators , must have convinced those watching that they were seeing something infinitely more perilous and spectacular . |
| 4 | Others , several of them very distinguished , recognized that great care was necessary but believed that they were seeing something so important that it ought to be properly investigated . |
| 5 | Even her hands were touching something pleasant — silky , soft ; she moved her fingers luxuriously , then slowly consciousness returned . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 7 | Now we were to try something which , as far as we knew , had n't been offered to the viewers before . |
| 8 | This breaching of the formally ‘ arm's-length ’ or contractual relationship has tended to undermine the supposed managerial independence of the enterprise ; in the graphic words of Johnson ( 1978 : 128 ) , there were ‘ grounds for suspecting that the public corporations were becoming something like tenants in the great ramshackle mansion of central government administration ’ . |
| 9 | He had an idea at bast some of the party were keeping something back . |
| 10 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 11 | And that the Germans were to receive something revolutionary . |
| 12 | The girls were wanting something done , partitioned off up the back or something for the draught coming under |
| 13 | In the middle of the room a small circle of men were passing something round . |
| 14 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 15 | They were paying something like forty five pounds a year for my training . |
| 16 | ‘ Certainly , we 've always had strays , ’ comments Luigi Boitani , the Roman zoologist who directed the wild dog study , ‘ but this time were facing something different . |
| 17 | Out came the remainder of the hambone , the cheese , the loaf , an unopened bottle of wine , then the blond man paused with his hand in the sack as though he were holding something . |
| 18 | If one were to do something that is statistically nonsensical — and when has that stopped a security analyst in his tracks ? — and make a sum of the percentage changes since the start , bookish securities have outperformed the UK market by 64% . |
| 19 | All of us were wearing something new — a spianato — because it was the custom , however difficult in years of war , to have a new outfit for this occasion which marked the beginning of autumn . |
| 20 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 21 | No they were called something else actually erm . |
| 22 | But then we made a sort of left turn with ‘ Tusk ’ , which dumbfounded a lot of people , not just the record company who obviously wanted the market , but a certain amount of the public who were expecting something that they 'd already labelled and were comfortable with . |
| 23 | Go and enjoy yourselves , ’ adding , with a gravelly laugh , as if he knew they were expecting something else : ‘ There 'll be no collection tonight . ‘ |
| 24 | and she said well I 'll be able to tell you how many enquiries we 've had and so you know , you were expecting something you know |
| 25 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
| 26 | We knew we were experiencing something beyond our understanding . |
| 27 | Erm now next week you were saying something about you 'd like one on Easter Monday , I wo n't actually be here . |
| 28 | But his eyes were saying something else . |
| 29 | Yeah , his amp 's got , yeah his amp was built for this particular type of er , I ca n't remember what bloody amp he 's got now there were no , no particularly flash like , you know , er , er , they were saying something to do with clipping , I think it 's to do with clipping they saying the power up , the power point 's alright as long as you do n't clip , because what happens is if the wave forms doing that |
| 30 | One is erm like you were saying something like factor analysis , something like erm y'know kind of seeing how they cluster together . |