Example sentences of "[was/were] something of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His straw boater was new and his plus-fours neat , but there was something of the air of a little boy about him . |
| 2 | ‘ Ha ! ’ said Marietta of Patras , ‘ I thought there was something of the brood mare about you . |
| 3 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 4 | There was something of the lawyer about Hal himself . |
| 5 | Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred . |