Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 2 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 3 | The pater was saying something to that effect only the other day . |
| 4 | There is the question of professional indemnity which I shall return to shortly because I think it might be helpful if the minister were to say something about that . |
| 5 | The mother was knitting something for seamen from coloured string . |