Example sentences of "he was [verb] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was demanding something of Meredith , that much was evident . |
| 4 | He was writing something in longhand , the paper turned sideways , the pen flying along the lines away from him at great speed . |
| 5 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 6 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 7 | She knew he was hiding something from her about the cat , something nasty , that should not be spoken of , she was sure . |
| 8 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 9 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |
| 10 | Instinct told her that he was planning something for her and it might not be to her liking . |
| 11 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 12 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Earlier on he was saying something about paint . ’ |
| 15 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 16 | oh Matt , right , and he was saying something about getting married and he said about bridesmaids , er have you choose the bridesmaids dresses ? , how old is she then ? |
| 17 | The girl beside him thought he was saying something to her and looked away . |
| 18 | He was , of course , touching a nerve deep within the Russian psyche , but he was saying something like this , that ‘ if Christ is risen , every argument for atheism is flawed ’ . |
| 19 | When he came back he was carrying something in his left hand . |