Example sentences of "[conj] something about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is that something about the dream itself ( its illogicality perhaps ) makes it difficult to remember , and the other that there is something about the physiological state in which we find ourselves when first woken up that makes remembering difficult . |
| 2 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 3 | And something about the tone of Churchill 's letter displeased Ramsey . |
| 4 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
| 5 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 6 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 7 | A few paces below where the body lay , and a yard or so into the bushes , there was a patch of free stones , loosely overgrown with grass and lichen , and to all appearance undisturbed for a year or more ; until something about the clear outlining of the upper stone made him look closer . |
| 8 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 9 | The style of Mrs Praga 's book , Dainty Dinner Tables and How to Decorate Them ( published in 1907 ) , may be archaic , but something about the tone and even the context is curiously familiar . |
| 10 | But something about the sheet of paper , lying with its contents reflected unreadably in the mirror , drew him towards it . |
| 11 | He only hesitated for a moment before something about the strained tension on her face made his mind up . |