Example sentences of "[vb pp] something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to tell how much of Dustin 's discomfiture during the making of the film seeped through into his portrayal , but it might have added something uneasy to the character of Benjamin . |
| 2 | After a while he said slowly , ‘ I see that you too have noticed something strange about the picture . |
| 3 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 4 | The police want to talk to anyone who may have seen something suspicious near the school on Sunday afternoon when the fire occurred . |
| 5 | ‘ No-one 's supposed to know what it means — most people think we 've done something odd with the word tartan . ’ |
| 6 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 7 | They had also done something terrible to the boiler , and discovered dry rot in the airing-cupboard . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Later , I believe , it was taken out of her hands for , having said something disobliging in an interview , she was blacklisted , and another woman of the same name had difficulty in entering the country . |
| 10 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 11 | For smaller structures , it has developed something akin to an insect 's cocoon : a very fine wire mesh riveted to the walls , floor and ceiling of a building , then sprayed with ferrocement containing metal particles . |
| 12 | School officials in Pasadena , Texas have detected something satanic in the peace symbol : they see it as an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity . |
| 13 | Erm oh there were a thousand and one things I I ca n't really erm you know they they were always they were at it hammer and tongs you know they had er s what would be called something similar to a steam hammer and you know . |
| 14 | I had always found something odd about the secrecy that the Reichmann brothers wished to preserve . |
| 15 | Suppose one of them had put something nasty in the food by error — or by purpose . |