Example sentences of "[indef pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice sounded odd to him , as if someone were speaking for him . |
| 2 | With Pluto in Scorpio you have had an uneasy feeling that someone was plotting against you . |
| 3 | Of course , she did n't believe every Sagittarian had felt someone was plotting against them , or that each and every one had such a momentous decision to make . |
| 4 | Someone was moving in there . |
| 5 | Tough to see the connection , unless someone was thinking of the body count in Hamlet . ’ |
| 6 | He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains . |
| 7 | To make sure the ‘ Oy ! ’ is a gut-reaction type of ‘ Oy ! ’ ( the ‘ Oy ! ’ you might cry if someone was tampering with your car ) , put one hand just below your throat and the other on your pubic bone . |
| 8 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 9 | He told me he had heard I was being watched , and that someone was looking for Magwitch . |
| 10 | We understood his need to feel that he was special , that someone was looking after him , and wished he could draw strength from us , rather than locking himself in his fantasies . |
| 11 | Someone was killed in Godfather II but I never heard anyone calling for the banning of that . |
| 12 | Someone was watching from the shadows of the forest . |
| 13 | As I turned away someone was shouting for the M.O . |
| 14 | Maybe someone was shouting in the courtyard . ’ |
| 15 | Someone was calling to the watchman . |
| 16 | Well , someone was calling for help , and she , Deborah Dawson , might be the only person to hear that call ; so she had to answer it . |
| 17 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 18 | A declaration that someone was acting as a " quasi-arbitrator " would be likely itself to be the subject of a future application to the court as to what the declaration meant … |
| 19 | Someone was pulling at her clothes , a hand shook her shoulder , and then a thumb rolled back her eyelid . |
| 20 | She skirted the fires , seeing no sign of movement , then realized that someone was running through the dark trees towards her . |
| 21 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 22 | Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island . |
| 23 | Someone was hammering in the cellar . |
| 24 | Someone was sitting at the stone chess table . |
| 25 | He did n't see anyone down there , but he insists that as he passed the alcove at the end of the gallery , he had the strong impression that someone was sitting in there , watching him . ’ |
| 26 | The back of the canvas chair had been turned towards the town , and in the gloom it was not immediately apparent that someone was sitting in it . |
| 27 | Someone was knocking at the door . |
| 28 | Unmistakably someone was coming up the stairs . |
| 29 | Someone was coming up the stairs , treading quickly and lightly . |
| 30 | It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination . |