Example sentences of "[subord] something [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 2 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 3 | The situation would be very different , however , if something like the no-boundary proposal were correct . |
| 4 | It was as if something in the skinny mare compelled him ; he did not look at any of the others . |
| 5 | A few paces below where the body lay , and a yard or so into the bushes , there was a patch of free stones , loosely overgrown with grass and lichen , and to all appearance undisturbed for a year or more ; until something about the clear outlining of the upper stone made him look closer . |
| 6 | He only hesitated for a moment before something about the strained tension on her face made his mind up . |