Example sentences of "[was/were] something in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 32 | There was something in the way he spoke that riveted her attention . |
| 33 | It was something in the air , she decided , some voodoo spell maybe . |
| 34 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 35 | There was something in the injection to cause the attack but they did not know what , the jury heard . |
| 36 | Now there was something in the paper tonight about the ruckus you said I 'll have to ask Brian about that . |
| 37 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 38 | I mean , I do n't think anyone was aware when I arrived there , or when I departed , you know , actually , but there was something in the air at Rolling Stone , and it was really based on British typography and stolen from them . |