Example sentences of "[was/were] something [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stok was something no computer could deal with ; perhaps that 's what I liked about him . |
| 2 | Battle-excitement was something no one would expect to extinguish . |
| 3 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 4 | One said : ‘ Most people in this area always felt there was something a bit odd about him . ’ |
| 5 | This again was something a shady jeweller would be likely to do to cover himself . |
| 6 | It was something a stranger might do — someone who had n't learned to take the view for granted . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've always thought there was something a bit sad about grown men waving guns about like that . |
| 8 | There was something a little unsettling about this shifting quality of his — this ability , like a prism , to cast lights of varying colours , all different , all startling , all totally unexpected . |
| 9 | She wanted us to make her a Shaker-style chest , and there was something a bit peculiar about the dimensions , so Luke and I went to Bracken Cottage . |
| 10 | Sir Ralph Howell would have induced confidence , even in schoolmasters ; there was something a bit dodgy about Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 11 | If it had been anyone else the Direktor would also have said that there was something a little pathetic about her . |
| 12 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 13 | It was something a manager always dreams of . ’ |
| 14 | That was something an infantryman could understand . |
| 15 | The letter of the law was something the Adjutant had learnt in his short army career . |
| 16 | This was something the authorities had never dreamt of doing . |
| 17 | One corporate lawyer said that he went along with producing false insurance policies without thinking anything of it , ‘ It was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ . |
| 18 | And the prospect of that new century , and with it the hope for a better future , was something the people of Frome , like the people of Britain itself , sorely needed . |
| 19 | As the corporate lawyer put it , when asked why he went along with producing completely bogus insurance policies as part of the Equity Funding Scandal : ‘ I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 20 | I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 21 | A reference to British Steel was something the punters would relate to , much to the dealers ' amusement . |
| 22 | It was something the competitive society logically needed … |
| 23 | This was something the Pioneers seem not to have tried . |
| 24 | There was something the doctor could n't move on my chest — what he thought was consumption . |
| 25 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 26 | Bigger and bigger telescopes were used to investigate whether nebulae were star-clusters or stars in the making ; this was something the spectroscope ultimately answered , because some nebulae gave bright-line spectra characteristic of hot gas rather than of the Sun or a star . |
| 27 | There was something wrong , there was something the matter . |
| 28 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 29 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 30 | The imposition of VAT misdeclaration and serious default surcharges was something the federation had opposed since its outset . |