Example sentences of "something [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general feeling in the town was that there was something strange about the Judge 's House . |
| 2 | There was something strange about the preacher 's shades . |
| 3 | No , it was probably something odd like a bird 's head brooch found near the body , or the design on a rare coin in the victim 's pocket . |
| 4 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 5 | It is something akin to a child 's musing choice to disobey a parent , ‘ Shall I or sha n't I ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being . |
| 8 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 9 | Then I saw something bright round the child 's neck . |