Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 2 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 3 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 4 | Our exhibition filled two floors in a dilapidated warehouse in which squatters , mainly British , were living in some squalor ; the other exhibitions were in houses , old shops , small factory spaces , offices and warehouses . |
| 5 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 6 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 11 | We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 14 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 15 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 16 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 17 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 18 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 19 | The little boy leaned his face to one side as if he was listening to some signal inaudible to mere mortals , and he whispered , ‘ I am going to destroy Malik . |
| 20 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 21 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 22 | The elderly Chas Varley was peering in some confusion at an arc of screens which pulsed with read-outs and rippling waveforms . |
| 23 | Adam joined Billie in the small shop in the lobby where she was browsing through some silk scarves . |
| 24 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 25 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 26 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 27 | However , there were unconfirmed reports in July and August that the PLO was coming under some pressure from moderate Arab states to accept the exclusion of East Jerusalem residents . |
| 28 | The woman Assassin was running through some muscle exercises , using her enhanced body sense to tense and untense . |
| 29 | Until he got Jackson 's note he had been convinced that the man was suffering from some sort of regular illness . |
| 30 | He thought he was suffering from some sort of glandular disease . |