Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 2 | Two days before it , however , when we were running through some back moves , my back seemed to lock out and I could n't move freely at all . |
| 3 | If men were beginning to abandon their fear of hell , they were clinging with some tenacity to their hopes of heaven , as we shall see in chapter nine . |
| 4 | While anxiously awaiting the first sighting report of the wanted man , they were watching with some satisfaction the handcuffed members of the Prophet 's entourage being bundled none too gently into the waiting paddy wagons by grim-faced uniformed cops . |
| 5 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |