Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 2 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 3 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 4 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 7 | Number 60 's wife was shouting something at number 60 's children . |
| 8 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 9 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 10 | Her father was explaining something to her in that overloud , careful voice which he used to her mother , the voice which said : ‘ I know you are too stupid to understand this but I will talk slowly and loudly and hope that you wo n't try my patience too far . ’ |
| 11 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |
| 12 | A man was preparing something for supper at a table . |
| 13 | Starke was saying something behind him . |
| 14 | The pater was saying something to that effect only the other day . |
| 15 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 16 | Ward 's voice was saying something about long distance aircraft , Gómez answering him more audibly , ‘ It 's not possible . |
| 17 | My mistake was to spread something through that went into horrid , nasty gathers on the pole . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One of the younger men with red hair was saying something to him , and Yuan answered briefly , and bowed as he sat in his place . |
| 20 | Gazzer was saying something to her . |
| 21 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 22 | The mother was knitting something for seamen from coloured string . |