Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] something about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 2 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 3 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 4 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 5 | This necessitates them saying something about the rival philosophy of the includers in addition to conveying the appearance of expertise . |
| 6 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 7 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 8 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |