Example sentences of "[was/were] something [prep] [art] " 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 | They were pretty much the style of suits that people wear now — double-breasted with peg trousers — but then they were something of a revolution . |
| 3 | The Euro-elections were something of a test for the Greens . |
| 4 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 5 | The years 1794–1806 were something of a honeymoon for the Prussians and their Poles : a spirit of co-operation flourished as the Prussians sought to secure the affections of their Polish subjects . |
| 6 | We were something of a phantom museum . |
| 7 | They were something of a hotchpot . |
| 8 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 9 | Rock pools were something of a novelty for him . |
| 10 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 11 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ? |
| 17 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 18 | And there was something about a large tortoise stove , freshly done with first-class blacklead and plenty of elbow-grease , that gladdened your eyes . |
| 19 | There was something about a girl he wanted to bring and there was something to do with stones . |
| 20 | ‘ There was something about a Bronze Age , I believe . |
| 21 | It was something about a sure light in their eye |
| 22 | But er there was something about a servant lass that got pregnant . |
| 23 | It was something about a child . |
| 24 | There was something about a chair . |
| 25 | There was something about the firm set of her body that Jay knew instinctively : she was a survivor . |
| 26 | There was something about the prospective return of Vincent that cheered Rim . |
| 27 | It was something about the lovers skiing across the Alpine mountain slope , vanishing into the mist . |
| 28 | There was something about the girl . |
| 29 | There was something about the care with which he looked into your eyes that was truly frightening . |
| 30 | 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 . |