Example sentences of "something [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you sing it quietly you wo n't sing something properly if you 're gon na sing |
| 2 | The final list of goals for food change is obviously rather different from all the others because the aim is to increase consumption of something rather than decrease it . |
| 3 | It was something rather than nothing . |
| 4 | The foundation of this approach was a positive conception of liberty ; freedom as an actual capacity for doing or enjoying something rather than simply the absence of external constraint : |
| 5 | Ability to actually do something rather than just copy something to follow instructions means they 've got to actually do a ste step-wise thing . |
| 6 | When Odilo has Herta on the bed , splayed and buckled , with her ankles on either side of the headboard , it 's as if he 's trying to kill something rather than create it . |
| 7 | And it looked as though you 'd bought something rather than been to the pawnshop . |
| 8 | But in either case , are n't you still declaring something rather than reporting on anything ? |
| 9 | The veto , yes we touched upon that , that 's that 's stopping the congress from doing something rather than making them do something . |
| 10 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |
| 11 | ‘ I had fallen into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . ’ |
| 12 | I felt so sorry for the horse while he was cutting his teeth that I pussyfooted around , falling into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . |
| 13 | Something perhaps since I have last seen you . |
| 14 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |
| 15 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 16 | But more , were one to accept the date given in the traditional account , one would also have to accept that in the space of something less than three years Molla Husrev was appointed to and then abandoned the posts to which he was appointed at the death of Hizir Bey , went to Bursa , built a medrese and taught there , and returned to Istanbul to accept the office of Mufti . |
| 17 | the six million erm U K pension cost is n't ongoing level and just going back to that er post-retirement medical benefits it would n't be material I mean definition material can be er something less than five percent of profits . |
| 18 | Indeed , in looking at the structuring in a different guise , we have got erm , something less than seven percent of total costs , that relate to erm , indirect management and administrative costs . |
| 19 | We could get something together if you like . |
| 20 | But with details Major Morton was less forthcoming , and Edward 's unease turned into something deeper when he named the ‘ traitors ’ who had drunk the shameful toast . |
| 21 | ‘ Getting away with it ’ , of course , means something only if the bats are adopting some kind of Tit for Tat strategy . |
| 22 | Something would be sticking out would hit on something so when the wood , your feet in the shoe , that would make a hole in the , in the front . |
| 23 | Can we have big fobs on them or something so as they do n't put the bloody things in their pockets ? |
| 24 | No if we er do something so as they have a checklist and we can all , you know like me and Jim say , have a copy to say oh right , can we take your name and address , telephone number |
| 25 | Possible , but if I was a BNP yob I 'd think he was taking the piss and would throw something , and if I was n't , I might throw something anyway because nationalism stinks — keep those ‘ Ethnic Cleansing ’ concentration camps in your mind . |
| 26 | Hewlett-Packard Co is not a company to rush into something just because it is the fashion , but with ICL Plc firmly in the Sparc camp , Groupe Bull SA committed to IBM Corp 's Power RISC and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's allegiance to the Alpha RISC bought dearly by Digital Equipment Corp — with Hewlett an unsuccessful contender in both the last two cases , the company may well be beginning to think that persuading Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG of the virtues of the Precision Architecture RISC is a high priority if it is to be seen to have equal standing with its three closest rivals in Europe . |
| 27 | If some project comes up during the course of the year , I would have thought that it might be appropriate to erm er cobble the name of centenary onto it , but I do n't really think that this year we just commit ourselves to something just because there 's a hundred years of parish government coming up . |
| 28 | You have to do something quickly before you see your mum . |
| 29 | The purpose of the planning system I think is to develop government guidance er and therefore we think there 's a need for something further than P P G three . |
| 30 | She was about to say something further when the telephone rang . |