Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 2 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 3 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 4 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |
| 5 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 6 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 7 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 8 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 9 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 10 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 13 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 14 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 15 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |