Example sentences of "something [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be something private Wayne |
| 2 | But there are other bits of information you might want to give , like a photo opportunity , like a particular thing , something specific happening which related to the press release but 's not part of it . |
| 3 | This we may express , indeed , in a few words , but it should influence us throughout all our treatment of horses ; for a horse will more readily take the bit , if , when he has taken it , something pleasant results to himself ; and he will leap across ditches , and jump over obstacles , and comply with our wishes in all other respects , if he looks forward , when he has done what is required of him , to some indulgence . |
| 4 | Were she not to experience such moments of trepidation there would be something strange m her nature indeed . |
| 5 | Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face , and when I looked down , I saw a very small human being , only fifteen centimetres tall . |
| 6 | For many years now , legal provision has been made for the importation of workers for the harvesting of fruit and vegetables , there being very specific acknowledgement that this is something native-born Americans can not be persuaded in the necessary numbers to do . |
| 7 | And ‘ vision ’ is something vulgar Reaganites had . |
| 8 | I seemed to remember statuary and flowers — hibiscus or something flaming red , roses maybe , in great urns — and there were doubtless other bedrooms leading off it with similar softly sliding glass doors . |
| 9 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 10 | The fear of finding out there was something awful wrong was like torture . |
| 11 | Bet three hundred something odd pound and they |
| 12 | And , as in Enid Blyton 's Famous Five children 's books , there was always ‘ lashings of ginger beer ’ and the smell of something appetizing baking in the kitchen . |
| 13 | Like the woman , drawing something old woman , there . |
| 14 | The aim of this simple exercise was to get her to move her feet and become aware that there was something tasty right under her beak , as it were . |
| 15 | Now Artemis heard something , something feathery shaking itself , and then clucking , in a low , solemn cluck . |
| 16 | It 's not something English dogs do . |
| 17 | they go to church because they 've done something wrong half of them |
| 18 | Mark is there something wrong upstairs ? |
| 19 | ‘ Something British car manufacturers are good at is being different and individual . ’ |
| 20 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 21 | It was n't just us ; you could go out any day of the week and see something fresh happening . |
| 22 | I mean sometimes you expect him to laugh and he does n't laugh like he says something funny and I say something funny back to him , but he does n't laugh . |
| 23 | ‘ Hmmm , ’ he thought , ‘ something interesting lives here . |
| 24 | Essentially they want something to happen , and their street activity can best be understood as an attempt to maximize the chances of something interesting happening . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact I could fix you up with something interesting right away . |
| 26 | If you want to talk about something different MPs voting themselves er twice the rate of inflation pay rise . |
| 27 | aye that 's exactly what he was on about , getting interviewed on that , I mean I 've see the trailer on it , they were showing them scenes , he 's sick of being typecasted as a hard macho man in films , he wants to do something different family films |
| 28 | According to the Wall Street Journal , former IBM Corp chairman John Akers is ‘ still technically an IBM employee , though he has lost his title , his board seat and his office at IBM 's Armonk , New York headquarters — he and his secretary have been quietly relocated to an IBM building in Stamford , Connecticut ; ’ we seem to recall something similar happening to an editor of the late lamented Datalink — first he was told he was no longer editor , but that there was a desk in Computing 's office — until Computing decided it needed it , whereupon a desk was found in the library , whereupon he resigned . |
| 29 | For example is there something similar happening in their own country so that they might compare and contrast practice in one country and another ? |
| 30 | Just something similar trip to Kirkwall in the Summertime eh . |