Example sentences of "was being [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty kilometres long by forty wide by five high , currently Vasilariov was being scarred by some of its own weapons as Harq Obispal raged through the hive like an angry bear . |
| 2 | Briefly Jaq entertained the notion that he was being tested by some Hidden Master of his secret order who had instructed Baal Firenze to send him to Stalinvast to assess whether Jaq possessed supreme courage and insight — enough for him to become a Hidden Master himself . |
| 3 | He was reaching the point where he might be tempted to hurt the boy out of frustration or because he thought he was being tricked in some way . |
| 4 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 5 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 6 | I found I was being sent to some ghastly hole , miles from civilisation , on top of the Lincolnshire wolds , and as I trekked sullenly north , little did I know how the course of my life was about to be permanently changed . |
| 7 | The grey eyes roamed over her face , and she felt as though she was being devoured by some huge magnetic force . |
| 8 | What it was like was being anointed by some slave girl . |
| 9 | The Torrejón air base was being used by some 45 per cent of all US forces en route for the Gulf . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the 1980s attention was being focussed on some interesting developments in wagon design . |