Example sentences of "something terrible " in BNC.
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| 1 | — My back hurts something terrible . |
| 2 | He pleaded on the radio and I knew something terrible was happening there . |
| 3 | Now she did not even wish to try , for fear of rousing up something terrible . |
| 4 | Something terrible , horrible was going to occur , a desecration . |
| 5 | Do n't be so severe with me , Gildas , I 'm under an awful strain , I think something terrible is going to be required of me . ’ |
| 6 | She was thinking , I am doing something terrible and stupid , I am destroying myself even more , I am weakening myself , I am breaking . |
| 7 | All day I sat so , and in the late afternoon , when the shadows were long on the castle lawns and the last rays of the sun were brassy and chill , I knew with certainty that something terrible had happened , and ran out of the castle , and away to the dark woods . |
| 8 | Something terrible has happened . ’ |
| 9 | I mean , it 's some astronomical figure , I ca n't remember what , something terrible like ninety-five per cent … anyway , the point is that — oh , here we are . |
| 10 | But they say it 's not very difficult if you know how , as it 's only a fun do , not affiliated or something , when you 'd get struck off or something terrible . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night . |
| 12 | They were the harbingers of something terrible . |
| 13 | Been throwing up something terrible since midday . ’ |
| 14 | Nobody ever volunteered to work with Brian , so Mr Grovey always had to force someone to , usually by threatening something terrible if they refused . |
| 15 | Deep in her inner mind , therefore , Kirsty believed that something terrible was going to happen and that her health would fail . |
| 16 | I took Gabriel into myself and loved him more than myself and maybe you 're right and I just ca n't let him go , but it 's not like that , Philippa , I swear it , it 's something else , a force — something wonderful if only I were n't so alone with it , something terrible unless I learn to understand it . |
| 17 | Do n't say ‘ Something terrible happened ’ . ’ |
| 18 | In the film there would have been something terrible awaiting him . |
| 19 | In bed , bleedin' something terrible . |
| 20 | There something terrible has happened to them of which they will not speak : ‘ A darkness lies behind us … and we have turned our backs on it ’ ( p. 141 ) . |
| 21 | Something terrible has happened . ’ |
| 22 | Or else what , I did n't know , except that it must be something terrible . |
| 23 | Did something terrible happen to those verbally adept young girls as they grew older ? |
| 24 | Grief-stricken Garry Tomlins said : ‘ Something terrible has happened to my family . |
| 25 | Baker does n't read the paper anymore , jokily citing the argument ‘ when you get to 26 , something terrible happens to music ’ . |
| 26 | Something terrible had happened in the time between his looking away and looking back . |
| 27 | Bet it does n't mean that at all , bet it 's something terrible , like calling an Indian a son of a pig . |
| 28 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 29 | The smallest unexplained happenings can give a hero or heroine the feeling that something terrible is about to occur . |
| 30 | Over the last months , she had realized that she had to leave home or something terrible would happen . |