Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 4 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 7 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 8 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |
| 9 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 12 | 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 … |