Example sentences of "something [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something cold settled into the pit of his stomach . |
| 2 | This is , she said , ‘ a day of love , something much needed in the world ’ — Paul Woodley , I R N , New York . |
| 3 | This was greeted with shock and outrage by an Italian public which , although it goes to church in ever smaller numbers , would like to see the outward signs of the Church 's existence march on unchanged , and recoils at the prospect of a sacred building housing something so profane as a fashion house , for example . |
| 4 | The linoleum ruptured , and something heavy landed on the back of my head . |
| 5 | In their clear , and rather boring , pictures of the ideological landscape , something suddenly moves on the horizon , too quickly for sure identification . |
| 6 | * Additional information is added in a phrase or clause placed next to ( in APPOSITION with ) something already named in the sentence which it also refers to . |
| 7 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 8 | There may in this adoption of French terms be some covert assumption that postmodernist writing , like cooking — or rather cuisine — is something best left to the French . |
| 9 | something just approaching from the south two thousand feet one zero one niner , and now turning eastbound er , via to pick up the M twenty five clockwise . |
| 10 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 11 | There is something mysteriously appealing about The Hair And Skin Trading Company 's music — the space that they manage to create amidst the diseased disorder of guitars and samples . |
| 12 | Will he and our right hon. and hon. Friends , over the next few weeks , consider whether there is scope for increasing that discount to something more related to the ability to pay of the single person ? |
| 13 | Again the balance is cleverly held between plain natural speech contours and rhythms on the one hand , and more artificial , almost sing-song , figures on the other — figures designed to tell us something more concentrated about the character . |
| 14 | In Goldring 's case , the customer had done something clearly conveying to the finance company that he did not own the van and that so far as he was concerned the seller ( the trader ) had every right to sell it . |
| 15 | It also provides a crucial area in which natural and social scientists can gain experience of cooperation , something urgently needed in a range of research priority fields related to global environmental change . |
| 16 | I began to feel something sharp coming through the roof of my mouth and went to Mr Grover , who X-rayed me and showed me a pretty picture of that fateful root still there despite the hammer and chisel . |
| 17 | THERE was something particularly touching about the picture of murdered teenager Johanna Young that dominated newspaper front pages this week . |
| 18 | It was like watching someone else have that dream we all have : where we 're already late and we 've got to clear these last few things , but every time we try , something else gets in the way . |
| 19 | So , this was something else to add to the list of things that Guido cared about . |
| 20 | Should you pay more for the rock — especially if there is something else attached to the rock , other than your intended purchase ? |
| 21 | But I see more than Rainbow does : I see something else coming over the wall . |
| 22 | There is something curiously intimate about the tutorial — about meeting regularly à deux to have conversations of a depth and intellectual intensity which will probably never be repeated in the pupil 's life . |
| 23 | There was a glint of something half buried in the mud , and Redpath extracted a cartridge , unfired , with bullet and cartridge case complete . |
| 24 | So Demosthenes ( Thuc. iv.2.4 : this man is a fifth-century soldier , not the famous fourth-century politician ) is explicitly told to use his fleet round the Peloponnese ‘ as he thought fit ’ ; he took Pylos with it ( p. 132 ) , an act which Thucydides implies was more extempore than it really was , but which was nevertheless not something specifically authorized by the Assembly . |