Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] something about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 4 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 5 | 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 . |