Example sentences of "something the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It ties in with something the pathologist said . |
| 2 | So I , foolishly , welcomed the invention of the tough trail bike , designed as it is to handle exactly the kind of unmetalled forest trails and dirt tracks I had previously navigated on something the grocer 's boy in a Hovis advert would have ridden . |
| 3 | The demonstrators knew something the demolition workers did n't . |
| 4 | That , though , would require sending in ground troops — something the West will not do unless there is a peace agreement first . |
| 5 | It gives them independence , but with support ; something the Duchess appreciated . |
| 6 | Just just scrappy old blue looks like something the art college has knocked up . |
| 7 | Now I tell them why if you 're gon na tell somebody why why your opinion is something the word because is bound to come into the sentence soon . |
| 8 | and not in , not necessarily the most seriousness , something the way they look at you |
| 9 | As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ? |
| 10 | Suddenly remembering something the boy had said , she went pink , then white . |
| 11 | At least , they were trying to surround it , but you 'd need an awful lot of humans to surround something the size of the Ship . |
| 12 | They run a perfectly good … well they probably ca n't miss something the size of America . |
| 13 | Hip hop is something the noise bands can learn from . |
| 14 | There 's nothing manly to be expected from Silvio , unless that English witch knows something the rest of us do n't . |
| 15 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 16 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 17 | We do n't know what it 's all about , but we do know you have something the law would like to hear . |
| 18 | Her great painful and ecstatic climaxes make us at last to know something the man has always wanted to know … |
| 19 | ‘ Your neighbours may have seen something the day your daughter was seized . |
| 20 | All the doctors are achieving with their uncontrollable itch to boss , patronise and distribute public money is to establish an idiotic certainty in our morally confused age that condoms ought to be free because they are something the government wants us to use . |
| 21 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 22 | London , City workers , and Britain 's balance of payments , all stood to lose billions if that happened — something the Government , in its desire to cut public spending , seemed remarkably slow to grasp . |
| 23 | aye well I mean er er in , on the ca er in a car or something the mileage |
| 24 | ‘ By the time I get there in that thing I shall look like something the cat dragged in , ’ she chortled . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to appear awkward , ’ said Lili that evening , ‘ but she looks like something the cat dragged in . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ She goes round looking like something the cat dragged in . ’ |
| 27 | Now , on top of everything else , she looked like something the cat had dragged in , and she had n't even brought a change of clothes with her , having planned to return to the Sheffield hotel to collect her luggage and settle her bill at a time when the actors would be at the theatre . |
| 28 | You look like something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 29 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You look like something the cat 's dragged in . ’ |