Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if writing is seen as the inferior side of a dichotomy with speech , as if it were missing something which needs to be put back . |
| 2 | Always you felt it was holding something back , waiting . |
| 3 | It stays trained on the front like it was expecting something to happen , while we hear a recorded interview with some policeman who probably never left his desk , saying it is possible one of the residents knows rather more about this , and investigations are in hand . |
| 4 | WHEN Robert Napier bought four acres of Carntyne and added it to his Parkhead Forge , it was to create something that would become a cross between Hell and Armageddon for the thousands who worked there . |
| 5 | Wesker 's dream had been a cultural palace for the workers ; in the years ahead , through the Henshaw connection it was to become something else . |
| 6 | Limited , de jure , to an aid programme , it was to assist something that was not yet there : an independent Vietnamese nation state . |
| 7 | Copies were not denigrated ; in fact , it was nearly as important to own an image that had a certain spiritual value and worth as it was to have something new . |
| 8 | It was becoming something more than just a folk club . |
| 9 | Of course she was glad she 'd had the opportunity to savour this experience , but it was also curiously frightening , because it was stirring something deep inside her that she had n't realised existed . |
| 10 | When he removed the crates to get at the tarpaulin he realized it was covering something , further stimulating his interest . |