Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] something [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester .
2 Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts .
3 One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner .
4 In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it …
5 His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat .
6 He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question .
7 " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock .
8 An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge .
9 He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière .
10 ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study .
11 However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said :
12 He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck .
13 He was waving something in the air and laughing .
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