Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |
| 2 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 3 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 4 | Eighteen or twenty thousand pounds was rolling out of Apple a week and nobody was doing anything about it . |
| 5 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 6 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 7 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 8 | It was as though something was pulling them towards that end of the cabin . |