Example sentences of "[was/were] something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 2 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 3 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 4 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 6 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 7 | Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ? |
| 8 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 9 | There was something about the firm set of her body that Jay knew instinctively : she was a survivor . |
| 10 | There was something about the prospective return of Vincent that cheered Rim . |
| 11 | It was something about the lovers skiing across the Alpine mountain slope , vanishing into the mist . |
| 12 | There was something about the girl . |
| 13 | There was something about the care with which he looked into your eyes that was truly frightening . |
| 14 | Elspeth was fair-haired , almost blonde , Rebecca was dark but there was something about the eyes they had in common , yet where Elspeth was grave and silent most of the time , Rebecca , or Becky as she was usually called , was lively and voluble . |
| 15 | In other words , there was something about the situation in which these people failed to perceive pain in spite of obvious injury whose nature they understood . |
| 16 | Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress . |
| 17 | Despite her eighteen years , there was something about the petulant droop of her mouth that reminded one of a spoilt child ; but even so she was strikingly lovely , with her big dark eyes and mass of golden hair , which she wore in a coil at the nape of her neck . |
| 18 | There was something about the way Kelly was speaking that seemed unlike her . |
| 19 | There was something about the Jungle . |
| 20 | It suggested that there was something about the man , some unknown factor which made him slightly suspect in the eyes of the authorities . |
| 21 | There was something about the elegant fist-fighting , swearing , tough little New York-born Italian son-of-a-gun that appealed to the ever-so-ever-so English son of a knight . |
| 22 | There was something about the way she was treating them that still seemed odd to Masklin . |
| 23 | It was something about the old man 's attitude that had made him cry . |
| 24 | Hari tensed , there was something about the situation that was familiar . |
| 25 | There was something about the movies although not too many people stopped to ask what it was . |
| 26 | Sometimes actually I think ‘ Oh I 'd like to go back to work ’ — to be in that hubbub — because I always worked in the West End and there was something about the atmosphere — being dressed all day … |
| 27 | There was something about the man he did n't trust . |
| 28 | ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you |
| 29 | There was something about the look in his eyes that told her this was a time to listen and not argue . |
| 30 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |