Example sentences of "something [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm trying to bridge east and west : to say , they look at something this way , and we look at something that way ; and the way we look at it is not necessarily correct , and they way they look at it is not necessarily incorrect . |
| 2 | ‘ A crime must be deliberate or reckless intent to do something that society brands as criminal . |
| 3 | He was looking for something that day ; he said it was a book . |
| 4 | maybe , maybe , people could just be thinking or , you know if they hear of somebody who might be able to come and give a talk like your friend who , who was very good , erm , you know , we could make a note of it and , or ask people , you know , could talk to talk or something that sort . |
| 5 | I try to use images that carry other images so that they keep on saying something each time you look at them . |
| 6 | I think they , if they , I mean as long as they know we are going to tell them or give them something each month they ought , ought to begin to look out for it . |
| 7 | ‘ But we are looking at others too ; there are lots of candidates out there and we need to conclude something this year . ’ |
| 8 | However , the Government should have done something this year to mitigate the costs of that 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Er , well I 've decided I want something this year |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm trying to bridge east and west : to say , they look at something this way , and we look at something that way ; and the way we look at it is not necessarily correct , and they way they look at it is not necessarily incorrect . |
| 11 | ‘ The compassion of Mrs Lodge is something this court can not ignore , ’ said the judge . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said : ‘ This is something this council regrets even having to consider but we are struggling to maintain services . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you 've got to do something this winter . |
| 14 | I have always felt that most of the practical differences between the handling of tailwheel aircraft and those with their third wheel at the wrong end could be covered in a single comprehensive magazine article ( like mine in March Pilot ) , but after reading The Compleat Taildragger Pilot I concede that , if you want to cover all the relevant theory too , something this size is required . |
| 15 | It should be something this committee erm tends |
| 16 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 17 | You did n't last time did you ? do something this week lunch today Have you got it ? |
| 18 | It was interesting to listen to the comments after the game from the Radio 5 reporter who said that we 'd had enough chances to last us ‘ till Christmas , maybe it 'll make a few people sit up and recognise that we have a team capable of winning something this season . |
| 19 | Chairman John Silk also stood down , with successor Trevor Summers saying : ‘ If Bobby Gould is honest he knew he had to win something this season because he did n't have a hope of staying if he did n't . ’ |
| 20 | I have hopes of Piladu 's telling us something this evening . |
| 21 | they 've learnt something this morning |
| 22 | ‘ Should have something this morning . ’ |
| 23 | Partly because I did something this morning . |
| 24 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 25 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 26 | Oh I had I had something this morning . |
| 27 | And because he wa he was really the only one that was in regular work in , in the yard , I 'm sorry well there was another one but still , there was n't many , everybody was short of something some day . |
| 28 | Someone had something some function of X here they differentiated it and it gave them X squared no what did they differentiate ? |
| 29 | They might have something one day and you cadge it off them , and you got something another day and they cadge it off you . |
| 30 | The replies ranged from ‘ not much ’ , because the school had a bursar , to ‘ all day ’ , because a non-teaching head ‘ has to do something all day ’ or because the head was always seen to be going out to talk about devolution ! |