Example sentences of "[verb] something [adj] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while he said slowly , ‘ I see that you too have noticed something strange about the picture . |
| 2 | right so I mean there 's , there 's obviously more need to be thought through on that and the video I have n't , oh I have done something more about the video |
| 3 | The public want the House to do something serious about the problem . |
| 4 | The reason is that there is nothing to put in — so please , if you have some news , or know something interesting about a member ( that can be published without attracting litigation ) let the editor know . |
| 5 | I had always found something odd about the secrecy that the Reichmann brothers wished to preserve . |
| 6 | In this , he is saying something significant about the way Conservatives are perceived among the fashionable folk ; and this perception is transmitted to sensitive souls who hate to think of themselves as being racist , greedy and materialistic . |
| 7 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 8 | But research implies something fresh about the material we obtain . |
| 9 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 10 | Maybe Errol picked up on my mood because he said something offensive about a lady I regarded with deep affection . |
| 11 | I hope also to say something useful about the structure of primate brains as well as the mechanisms of linguistic evolution , both issues that Searle sets to one side as irrelevant to the conceptual question he is pressing . |
| 12 | One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols . |
| 13 | Choreography cost money , and no-one out front really gave a toss anyway ; but all the same it rankled. because it seemed to say something unignorable about the station he 'd reached in life . |
| 14 | I want first to say something nice about the Under-Secretary of State and , on the record , to thank him for his decision in the case of Younis Patel , who was in prison in Leicester for a number of months . |