Example sentences of "[verb] something in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 2 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 3 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 4 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 5 | In oriental rugs , every knot — which corresponds to two individual strands of pile — is tied by hand , and a skilled weaver can tie something in the region of a thousand knots per hour . |
| 6 | Even , however , if it was rightly decided , it is remote from the present issue , since it proceeded on the basis that the giving of surety for a defendant 's bail created something in the nature of a civil debt . |
| 7 | Hungary owes something in the order of twenty billion dollars in international debt . |
| 8 | Our estimate is that the city itself needs something in the order of five thousand jobs over the period of the structure plan to er really just to stay still , to run to run to stand still . |
| 9 | Leyland Daf workers and trades union leaders in Britain criticised the British Government for not taking similar action to the Belgian and Dutch governments , which will invest something in the region of £80 million to help Daf resume production on the continent . |
| 10 | I must have missed something in the council tax . |
| 11 | Or have I missed something in the rules ? |
| 12 | I felt wonderful , and it was at that moment that I realised that if I started taking my athletics seriously , if I started training properly , if I started listening to Ron , then maybe I could do something in the sport . |
| 13 | Since then , they estimate that he has seen something in the region of 70 doctors . |
| 14 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 15 | When we cover something in the lesson , you need to go over it yourself , |
| 16 | It probably loses something in the translation from the original Latin . |
| 17 | He muttered something in the direction of his wife , something about ‘ if she had a moment ’ . |
| 18 | At this point Sergeant Aitken came in and muttered something in the Inspector 's ear . |
| 19 | So , if you have done something in the past which you now regret and would do differently were the situation to repeat itself , you should be pleased that you have learned something vital and that your spirit , having dealt with that negative aspect , will not have to encounter it again . |
| 20 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 21 | At a World Cup : ‘ The manager must have said something in the Dutch dressing gown at half-time . ’ |
| 22 | What I was gon na suggest is that , we actually put something in the bulletin , not in the sense of , well , you know please report your illnesses kind of thing , but if we just make people aware of actually this sort of environmental control thing would be a good idea . |
| 23 | I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that |
| 24 | ( In this particular area of using dictionaries in catalogue systems , the only precedent of which I am aware is of a university paying something in the region of $40–50,000 . ) |
| 25 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 26 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 27 | Erm should I at least be prepared to again stick something in the newsletter about . |
| 28 | If I ca n't read or understand something in the paper he discusses it with me — about what is happening in the country or the community or about what politics can mean . |
| 29 | And this , this comment about that they think you 've got something in the house worth pinching does n't really come into it . |
| 30 | Well he 's the least of the problem because if he 's got something in the churchyard there 'd be something dated probably . |