Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would even say something nice about his new-fangled haircut if he were to say something hopeful to the London borough of Newham . |
| 2 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 3 | Out came the remainder of the hambone , the cheese , the loaf , an unopened bottle of wine , then the blond man paused with his hand in the sack as though he were holding something . |
| 4 | He felt precisely as if he were hiding something from her . |
| 5 | Maxim hoped it sounded as if he were hiding something more than the fact that Blagg had n't been able to tell what they were . |
| 6 | looked like a great big piano , you know , with like the buttons and he were doing this and they 've got every country within range on the wa on whatever it was , wall or a gantry , and if that was n't too , too good he , he were doing something and it come up . |
| 7 | It was as if he were timing something , judging to a nicety some effect he wished to produce . |
| 8 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 9 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 10 | He was experiencing something utterly new for him : his first controlled passage into a geistzone under the guidance of an oolerinnen ; his first safe transit of the threshold for so long guarded by the bone , wood and bird-wing magic of the shaman . |
| 11 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 12 | He was eating something out of a box . |
| 13 | He was humming something sombre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was creating something new , as much in his restaurant as in his cookery writing . |
| 16 | He was demanding something of Meredith , that much was evident . |
| 17 | Blanche knew he was concealing something but she was unsure what . |
| 18 | ‘ He was writing something when I came in , only he would n't show it to me . ’ |
| 19 | He was writing something in longhand , the paper turned sideways , the pen flying along the lines away from him at great speed . |
| 20 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 21 | He was yelling something as he ran . |
| 22 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 23 | He felt he was implementing something conceived by clever brains . |
| 24 | She frowned , sensing that he was holding something back . |
| 25 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 26 | Swire Sugden looked at his watch and glanced out of the window as if he was expecting something . |
| 27 | She knew he was hiding something from her about the cat , something nasty , that should not be spoken of , she was sure . |
| 28 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 29 | I think he was hiding something , you know . |
| 30 | He was hiding something . |