Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tough to see the connection , unless someone was thinking of the body count in Hamlet . ’ |
| 2 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 3 | Maybe someone was shouting in the courtyard . ’ |
| 4 | Someone was calling to the watchman . |
| 5 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 6 | Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island . |
| 7 | Someone was hammering in the cellar . |
| 8 | Someone was sitting at the stone chess table . |
| 9 | Someone was knocking at the door . |
| 10 | Someone was standing at the door of the music-room . |
| 11 | Someone was standing on the parapet , leaning over and looking down . |
| 12 | No sign of Julie , but someone was walking up the drive towards the house . |
| 13 | Someone was walking up the hill , and his whisper echoed in the cypresses . |
| 14 | If someone was lurking in the garden , then they could stay there . |
| 15 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 16 | THE UK clocked up record exports of £4.3 billion in January , but nobody was cheering in the City yesterday , writes Magnus Grimond . |
| 17 | Nobody was hit by the bullet and the two fleeing men surrendered . |
| 18 | Nobody was looking at the thicket at the moment the wounded cow broke cover . |
| 19 | Witcher was uncomfortably aware that nobody was laughing at the Doctor . |
| 20 | But nobody was encumbered with the bounty of the countryside tied up with old newspaper and garden string . |
| 21 | Yes , somebody was coming along the passage — a man . |
| 22 | and they thought that he was the accomplice sitting outside while somebody was going round the house . |
| 23 | Plenty was built by the Frasque , who did not call it that , or anything else , so far as I have been able to discover . |
| 24 | Everything was redeemed by the touch of his duck-down quilt . |
| 25 | Ready to concentrate on milking and hoeing and clearing away the broad beans and planting out the rest of the cabbages , so that everything was done before the harvest on Tuesday . |
| 26 | ‘ No , everything was done in the studio . ’ |
| 27 | Everything was argued round the premise that existing union members should not have to pay the price of an EOP , and we should n't be expected to do management 's job for them . |
| 28 | Then everything was forgotten except the moment . |
| 29 | The strict approach , whereby in construing the effect of a purported exclusion clause everything was construed against the party in whose favour a term was included in the contract , the contra preferentem rule , has been mitigated through statutory intervention . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that many serious buyers stayed away because not everything was described in the catalogue , the event drew collectors and dealers from Switzerland , Belgium , France and Britain . |