Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 9 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 10 | The elderly Chas Varley was peering in some confusion at an arc of screens which pulsed with read-outs and rippling waveforms . |
| 11 | Adam joined Billie in the small shop in the lobby where she was browsing through some silk scarves . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The woman Assassin was running through some muscle exercises , using her enhanced body sense to tense and untense . |
| 17 | Until he got Jackson 's note he had been convinced that the man was suffering from some sort of regular illness . |
| 18 | He thought he was suffering from some sort of glandular disease . |
| 19 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 20 | And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly . |
| 21 | " My daughter said she was talking to some man in the street . |
| 22 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 23 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 24 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 25 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 26 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 27 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 28 | Then he fell silent , as if he was thinking of some way to turn this promise into a purpose , and he added , in the barest of trembled whispers , ‘ As I am an eagle of Wrath do I promise it . |
| 29 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 30 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |