Example sentences of "something [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 2 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 3 | Things do not look white in virtue of something analytically involved in their looking white , something which they have in common — as metals have in common that their oxides dissolved in water yield an alkaline solution — with other things that look white . |
| 4 | I was bound to find something somewhere . |
| 5 | But she could have been slipped something somewhere , through a pinprick . |
| 6 | It is a good thing that Graham Gooch 's integrity is beyond reproach , because anyone not knowing the full story might feel that something somewhere was not quite right ! |
| 7 | She knew that what I said was believable enough , since Vadinamia was a highly likely place for a courier to drum up a job conveying something somewhere . |
| 8 | A putten something somewhere |
| 9 | I 've actually I 've written something somewhere |
| 10 | I 'll grab something somewhere . ’ |
| 11 | Detectives tackling a sixty seven percent rise in burglaries in the last year want nine nine nine calls from anyone who has the slightest suspicion that something somewhere is not quite right . |
| 12 | I 'm short of something somewhere fifteen two , fifteen four , pair of six that 's all I can there Joy . |
| 13 | I 'm looking for something somewhere Yes , well it appears to be working , but whether it 's working correctly I do n't know oh Ray , there is provision here for the headphones , you , you said are you supposed to use headphones with it , mind you it sounds pretty audible anyway , I do n't think you need headphones , I mean I 'm not sure there 's a |
| 14 | erm maths dictionary or something somewhere . |
| 15 | They are prepared to look at something appreciatively without wanting to buy it . |
| 16 | It is a breaking in of something wholly new : it is an act of creation which parallels the story of creation in Genesis 1 . |
| 17 | Let us acknowledge with gratitude something wholly good that is emanating from the House tonight . ’ |
| 18 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 19 | He cleared the board then sat back , waiting , feeling himself go very still , as if something strange — something wholly out of the ordinary — were about to happen . |
| 20 | By the time we were enquiring for the Hacienda Lucinda he was growing in my mind as something wholly evil , as deformed and monstrous as Victor Hugo 's hunchback of Notre Dame without the saving grace of simplicity . |
| 21 | It was not clear enough to protect the sellers from the consequences of their own negligence and it did not apply when the sellers had delivered something wholly different in kind from that which had been ordered . |
| 22 | For readers already familiar with the transmogrification of Sheffield from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to something altogether more ‘ pragmatic ’ , you could be forgiven for believing that the drama unfolding around the boardroom table was just one more step along this route , with committed socialists playing the stock market with the best of them . |
| 23 | Sex for Prince is n't ‘ communication ’ or ‘ exchange ’ but something altogether more mystical : the dissolution of the very differences and identities that make communication and sex possible . |
| 24 | We sometimes use the term ‘ equity ’ , or words corresponding to it , in popular language as if it was something altogether outside law . |
| 25 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 26 | When Willie woke the next day , there was something altogether unusual about the morning . |
| 27 | Close to the end of his life , Vincent referred approvingly to Tolstoy 's My Religion , and spoke of his hopes for a ‘ private and secret revolution in men from which a new religion will be born … something altogether new which will have no name , but will have the same effect of comforting , of making life possible , which the Christian religion used to have … ’ . |
| 28 | He felt he was being drawn out of his comfortless hole into something altogether more vast and impressive and alarming . |
| 29 | But we are considering something altogether grander here . |
| 30 | What had started as an unimportant if rather shameful seduction had become something altogether more painful . |