Example sentences of "something [adv] [vb pp] [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 | The linoleum ruptured , and something heavy landed on the back of my head . |
| 4 | * 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Should you pay more for the rock — especially if there is something else attached to the rock , other than your intended purchase ? |
| 11 | There was a glint of something half buried in the mud , and Redpath extracted a cartridge , unfired , with bullet and cartridge case complete . |
| 12 | 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 . |