Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] something [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 3 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 4 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 5 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 6 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 7 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 8 | The sixth , Italy , was to prove something of a lame duck in their company , because of her lack of resources . |
| 9 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |