Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 4 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 5 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |
| 6 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |