Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] something [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During the next few days Stevie was to find himself something of a cult figure .
2 A standard way to intervene with one or more pupils is to ask them something along the lines of ‘ tell me what you 're doing ’ .
3 look your sisters trying to tell me something about the television , well the televisions not switched on though
4 In order to supply a comprehensive background to our experience with a Computerised Personnel Information System ( CPIS ) it is important to tell you something of the Personnel and Data Processing functions at Parker .
5 We should be able to tell you something of the nature of the fastenings used but I doubt if we can say whether a body was involved .
6 To tell you something about the work of other college staff .
7 Before looking at some of the erm details of those practical programmes I would like to tell you something about the principles upon which his mind worked in approaching practical affairs .
8 It may have been presented to the Queen in order to show her something of the impact that Protestantism had made in Italy .
9 He knew they were trying to tell him something in the sign language used by the deaf and dumb .
10 It conceals , both in Adrian Bromley himself and the enterprize he controls , a powerful dynamic which , in a relatively short period of time , appears to have created the potential to make it something of a jewel in the crown of the C&P operations .
11 Was the V. & A. 's Chairman trying to tell us something about the government 's degree of responsibility for the staff restructuring plans announced by the V. & A. 's Director and rashly endorsed by himself in 1989 ?
12 But here at Sophia Gardens , a nap hand of British girls have in their different ways been doing their best to tell us something about the game they play … and offering a few hints of hope for the future .
13 But here at Sophia Gardens , a nap hand of British girls have in their different ways been doing their best to tell us something about the game they play … and offering a few hints of hope for the future .
14 We 're keen to trace him because he might be able to tell us something like a piece of a jigsaw really that may help to put the case together
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