Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they were called something else actually erm . |
| 2 | They were discussing something . |
| 3 | They were destroying something we dreamed of owning and playing but had no prospect of affording at the time . |
| 4 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
| 5 | In addition the nurse , too , thought that the parents were uncooperative and that they were hiding something . |
| 6 | The skill of the teams of acrobats , performing all manner of diversionary handstands and somersaults on the ground between the bull and the spectators , must have convinced those watching that they were seeing something infinitely more perilous and spectacular . |
| 7 | Others , several of them very distinguished , recognized that great care was necessary but believed that they were seeing something so important that it ought to be properly investigated . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 9 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 10 | Go and enjoy yourselves , ’ adding , with a gravelly laugh , as if he knew they were expecting something else : ‘ There 'll be no collection tonight . ‘ |
| 11 | they were showing something and er one of the er Asian lads says ooh I 'm English now , and his mate says no you 're not , you 're British . |
| 12 | Well the other evening they were showing something on T V , one of these doctors ' , doctors ' practices that are opting out or whatever . |
| 13 | They were burning something . |
| 14 | They were paying something like forty five pounds a year for my training . |
| 15 | Deutsch and Budwig ( 1983 ) , for example , found that children often used their own names in two-word utterances when they talked about objects currently in their possession , but a pronoun like me or my when they were claiming something not yet in their hands . |
| 16 | And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something . |
| 17 | Of course , they were doing something , standing around on comers in groups for example , but as far as the boys were concerned nothing memorable seems to happen to them on Saturday night . |
| 18 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 19 | And I was aware that they were doing something with my fire . |
| 20 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 21 | You 'd see fellows in the middle of the night , especially if they were carrying something . |
| 22 | That they were carrying something she did not doubt , for they moved slowly , carefully , as if bearing some precious burden … |
| 23 | They were carrying something heavy into the house . |
| 24 | Yeah , his amp 's got , yeah his amp was built for this particular type of er , I ca n't remember what bloody amp he 's got now there were no , no particularly flash like , you know , er , er , they were saying something to do with clipping , I think it 's to do with clipping they saying the power up , the power point 's alright as long as you do n't clip , because what happens is if the wave forms doing that |
| 25 | They were saying something to me about there wo n't be that bigger fall . |
| 26 | They were fighting something far stronger and potentially devastating : sexual attraction . |
| 27 | They were dripping something . |
| 28 | thing and you know , they were over and some of them were doing something and it is somebody you normally and the news and I said the news and actually sort of frozen and the guy said to me , he must of actually seen me frozen there , he said it 's okay , it 's okay , it 's nothing about whatever her name is , you know |
| 29 | 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 … |