Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear ! |
| 3 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was to drive something of a wedge between him and Lloyd George and other former Welsh allies . |
| 6 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 7 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 10 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 11 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 16 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 19 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 25 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 26 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 29 | The sixth , Italy , was to prove something of a lame duck in their company , because of her lack of resources . |
| 30 | The theatre of war slowly became enlarged , a fact which , paradoxically , was to prove something of an advantage to the kings of France as they tried , if not always with success , to unite their entire population in a common war effort against the English . |