Example sentences of "[was/were] something in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But there was something in the air like hummingbirds poised over exotic blooms or velvet sheened butterflies . |
| 5 | Jordi 's head was set beautifully on his broad shoulders , and there was something in the way he held his neck to support that head which was unmistakably intelligent and sexy . |
| 6 | There was no one else : Cal 's two older brothers worked away — one was something in The City . |
| 7 | There was something in the Crusade to appeal to everyone . ’ |
| 8 | It was something in the past . |
| 9 | There was something in the air , an energy , a vibrancy , which she had never experienced before . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 11 | ‘ There was something in the paper . ’ |
| 12 | She hated to admit it to herself , but there was something in the style and appearance of his note that would not do . |
| 13 | ‘ thought that , following your direction , the jury might think that there was something in the statement which the defence wanted to hide , using the cloak of privilege . |
| 14 | There was something in the way she said it , something in the rapid toss of her head . |
| 15 | There was something in the last track of Sheer Event Shift about the Wizard King being crowned in a towering castle . |
| 16 | A's defence on the latter ground would of course be assisted if there was something in the shed worth stealing . |
| 17 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 18 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 19 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 20 | There was something in the train of his thoughts , he sensed , that pointed to the answer he sought . |
| 21 | There was something in the quality of his quiet , confiding tone that made her feel there was an intimacy between them . |
| 22 | Peck was annoyed at the interruption , but there was something in the bearing of the man who stood before him which could not be ignored . |
| 23 | He was something in the Civil Service . ’ |
| 24 | Jesus , maybe it was something in the water ! |
| 25 | Because I , I 've received a letter erm from a parishioner , if I can find it , er which I have photocopied for everyone , which I think was a direct response to the fact that there was something in the magazine and perhaps a direct response to other meetings and to a general feeling as well . |
| 26 | I knew there was something in the wind , has been for weeks . |
| 27 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
| 28 | Next he interrogated the gunners and found that the average rounds used by them ( that came back ) was something in the order of 350 rounds per gun , and they carried and brought back several thousand rounds per gun . |
| 29 | Er members will recall that the potential savings that might from the original was something in the order of eight to nine hundred thousand pounds and of course the majority of those er present the saving will be policy will be consideration . |
| 30 | It was n't just the overwhelming sense of power that seemed to emanate from him as he stood there , it was something in the startlingly blue eyes which raked her slender figure and delicate features with an intensity that almost took her breath away . |