Example sentences of "[indef pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 2 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 3 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 4 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 5 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 6 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 7 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 8 | From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them … |