Example sentences of "[conj] something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do n't you , ’ she said in the ultra-kind voice she reserved for very recalcitrant children , ‘ get out , put some branches or stones or something under the wheels , then start pushing ? |
| 2 | It 's not to late to book I think it says something about surcharge after sixth of March or something on the form does n't it ? |
| 3 | They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs . |
| 4 | Now I 'm not gon na bother to put the N sort of equals one to N equals N or something on the top yeah ? |
| 5 | His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison . |
| 6 | The Banker is a riverside pub , converted from a warehouse or something at the end of Cousin Lane , a cul-de-sac tucked under the armpit of Cannon Street station . |
| 7 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 8 | And then there 's all this , yeah green or something at the back . |
| 9 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 10 | We might plan an outing or something with the whole staff — each one will say where they want to go and how to make it work . ’ |
| 11 | You 're often looking for somewhere , a garage or something off the motorway just for the toilet or a drink |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah I think they want twelve , twelve ninety nine or something off the market |
| 13 | thirty six quid for this thirty six eighty four or something for the local paper . |
| 14 | So the other ones , the ones that need correcting , we 've got ta do a procedure or something for the team ? |
| 15 | The girls were wanting something done , partitioned off up the back or something for the draught coming under |
| 16 | if erm you know , if we go a bit later , say like about seven o'clock or something to the cinema . |
| 17 | it 's erm Steve 's mother 's birthday and Gavin 's , they 've got to get him up about midday , one o'clock or something up the school tomorrow she said I have n't even packed yet . |
| 18 | What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind . |
| 19 | Another excuse was that he needed liquidity for a property deal or something of the sort , so a complete sell out would be necessary within the next month or so , albeit with the least possible losses . |
| 20 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 21 | " I imagine there 's a dust-sheet or something of the kind in the linen-cupboard . |
| 22 | I suppose you made some noise ; did nobody call out , ‘ Is that you , Matthew ? ’ or something of the sort ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In a shoe box or something of the sort . |
| 24 | He got Humphrey on to some Royal Commission on the training of engineers , or something of the sort . |
| 25 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |
| 26 | Erm and they will keep them in the archives and I suppose transcribe them or something of the sort . |
| 27 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 28 | Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true . |
| 29 | Yeah so erm yeah so if you get that sort of thing and then you can in some way either get people to discuss or get them to fill in a questionnaire about it or something of the sort I mean that 's er the format that y'know kind of er seems to work quite well for final year projects anyway er generally speaking with other stuff so er yeah that 's that 's do-able . |
| 30 | You certainly would n't get away with that with a violin concerto or something of the sort . |