Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He 's writing something for the films , he says .
2 Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell .
3 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 .
4 He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached .
5 He was waving something in the air and laughing .
6 He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble .
7 He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière .
8 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 .
9 He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question .
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