Example sentences of "[was/were] something [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was something hiding behind the tree ? |
| 2 | There was something glistening on the table , like spilled blood . |
| 3 | ‘ There was something subduing in the influence of that silent and solemn and awful presence ( the Jungfrau ) … one had the sense of being under the brooding contemplation of spirit , not an inert mass of rocks and ice — a spirit which had looked down , through the slow drift of ages , upon a million vanished races of men , and judged them ; and would judge a million more — and still be there , watching , unchanged and unchangeable after all life should be gone and the earth had become a vacant desolation . ’ |
| 4 | It sounds naff , but it really was something coming off the street at a very cult level . ’ |
| 5 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 6 | There was something lying on the ground in front of me and I tried to jump over it , but my feet would n't leave the ground and I sort of waded through it . |