Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were dying to see something go wrong , you know , they were good old sorts , some of them were odd ones , but a good lot . |
| 2 | BIT EMBARRASSING today because Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were caught feeding something when we visited the boring but compulsory Old Mill today — and it turned out that it was a baby that they were feeding ! |
| 3 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 4 | Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism . |
| 5 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 6 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you were going to say something beginning with But . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You know , I was rather afraid you were going to say something like that . ’ |
| 9 | Sorry you were going to say something . |
| 10 | We were going to buy something else but you could n't do it so I think this is going to be very nice . |
| 11 | It would be tragic if , just when we were beginning to see something better for our children and for our nation , the door were to be slammed in our face . |
| 12 | In another presidential address , this time to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues , Stotland ( 1977 ) spoke on the topic of ‘ white-collar criminals ’ and argued that although we were beginning to know something about the people who commit white-collar and corporate crime , we ought to intensify our efforts . |
| 13 | ‘ We were beginning to think something had happened to you , especially when we kept ringing your flat and could n't get any reply . |
| 14 | We were starting to say something else |
| 15 | Just when it looked as if they were starting to put something together ( they had not lost a goal in their previous four matches ) , along came Dundee to ruin it all . |
| 16 | People who kept silent were assumed to have something to hide . |
| 17 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 18 | She looked as if she were trying to remember something . |
| 19 | I think you were trying to say something , Inspector ? ’ |
| 20 | Take your right arm out to the side , stretching out with a gentle ‘ rocking ’ motion as if you were trying to reach something . |
| 21 | Outside , a few brown chickens were trying to find something to eat in the garden . |
| 22 | As we were still undergoing our basic training , we were not allowed to have a bar and nor would we be allowed to make a tour of the rest of the bars in the regiment , a ruling which Mike , Marius and myself were determined to do something about . |
| 23 | And , while she was suddenly a little mesmerised to see a return of that charm , ‘ You mentioned to my secretary yesterday that you were hoping to see something of my country , ’ he reminded her . |
| 24 | Alternatively , of course , as many people do , you could use the capital for a worthwhile project such as improving your home ; or , if you were planning to give something to your grandchildren , this could be an opportune time to settle it on them . |
| 25 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 26 | I was aching to say something that would help her . |
| 27 | He was impelled to say something : it was in his blood , his whole being drove him on . |
| 28 | Perhaps I was expected to say something . |
| 29 | The late 1720s , the most brutal time of all with its bad harvests , high prices , and killer epidemics , saw off no fewer than six Titfords within two years ; the period 1766/7 also claimed its victims in the family , as did the winter and spring of 1771 , as we have seen ; and the near-famine year of 1795 , following hard on a winter which was said to herald something resembling a new ice-age , had brought the death of Charles the Cheesemonger 's wife Elizabeth . |
| 30 | She was not looking in their direction , her head was turned to say something to whomever she was with , her short hair blown straight up by the wind as they went into the little newsagent 's , leaving McLeish a clear run to get Catherine back to the Yard . |