Example sentences of "[pers pn] something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was telling me something indelicate about a horse , ’ said Lydia . |
| 2 | Come on , tell me something nice for a change . " |
| 3 | Yeah we something wrong with the bathroom . |
| 4 | There was to her something romantic about the idea of sitting with him in the place where she had so often sat alone , eating a poached egg or macaroni cheese at a shaky little oak table . |
| 5 | It is that to a class of fifteen-year-olds in a co-ed comprehensive school , such a statement told us something influential about the culture in which we were growing up and nothing about gerbils . |
| 6 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 7 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 8 | The Carthusians , a reformed branch of the Benedictine order , were particularly enthusiastic about The Ladder and this tells us something important about the nature of Hilton 's achievement . |
| 9 | These empirical difficulties tell us something important about the nature of support structures between grandparent and grandchild . |