Example sentences of "[prep] something [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did he feel as though he had just run his sword through the heart of something small and desperately struggling for survival ? |
| 2 | I felt I was poised on the edge of something bigger and more unknown than anything I had encountered in life , and the mystery of what was about to happen added to the attraction . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , the music demands attention , and those in search of something rewarding but well off the beaten track and need not hesitate unduly . |
| 4 | For the pudding , my own weakness is a small glass of something sweet and much lighter than port which I prefer to save and have on its own or with a mince pie . |
| 5 | Corinthian philistinism , more real though less notorious than Theban , is part of something deeper and more disturbing : she had no ideology to offer , nothing that is like Athenian paideia or Spartan agoge , ‘ culture ’ and ‘ discipline ’ respectively . |
| 6 | It 's not her dying while he 's there that panics him , I reckon ; it 's the thought of something messy or perhaps her dipping into another decade and making him one of the period characters . |
| 7 | The human subject is conceived in terms of an essential , intrinsic lack ; it is a fragment of something larger and more primordial , whose existence is dominated by the desire to recover its missing complement ( The Subject of Semiotics , 152 ) . |
| 8 | I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning . |
| 9 | Now for something real and very serious which has happened to me . |
| 10 | Wait for something abusive and then |
| 11 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 12 | What Chris Bonington has achieved in terms of single-minded organisation and drive , or what Reinhold Messner has demonstrated by his speed and panache , have been matched by Doug Scott 's determination always to try for something different and never to be satisfied by the more obvious and easier routes to success . |
| 13 | Nowadays the mid-1950s rock craze seems to provoke nothing more than a nostalgic chuckle , and when the original Teds are remembered at all within the contemporary preoccupation with hooliganism it is as something quaint and remarkably innocent . |
| 14 | To posit an object in the modus per se is to posit it as something determinate and existentially unique . |
| 15 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 16 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 17 | This meant that Adorno in particular tended to project science as something exterior and exclusively instrumental ; he reacted against it , as well as ‘ objective ’ reason generally , by trying to retrieve the individual subject as the means to salvation . |
| 18 | It 's like coming across as something funny and very serious . |
| 19 | Of the written words available , the Club 's own records , in particular the minutes , were infuriatingly incomplete , largely impossible to read because of the writing , and either terse about something important or long winded about something trivial . |
| 20 | You were talking about something more than just a feeling . ’ |
| 21 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 22 | In the Jackson 's case , all is well here so the signs are good for linking up with something good and loud . |
| 23 | That was n't important , but it was easier to start with something unimportant and then , later on , she could begin to tell him about Oliver . |
| 24 | Her vision was starting to blur , with something more than just tears . |
| 25 | I always bring something back from there — today it was iris together with something white and richly scented ; I asked the girl twice what it was called but could n't catch what she said — I arrange the flowers in the vase I bought soon after I arrived . |
| 26 | Bell is happy to cultivate the impression that he was the Svengali who transformed Thatcher 's harsh , strident public persona into something softer and more voter-friendly . |
| 27 | No , lust was n't ugly ; many of her friends ' affairs and marriages were founded on mutual lust and a few had stayed that way , neither foundering nor developing into something richer and more complex ; but for her it could never be enough , even in the context of a mere beginning , and , after the depressing end of the relationship in Wellington , she knew that even if it had been allied to liking or affection , it still would n't have been enough . |
| 28 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 29 | Well at the time they put it on the market we , we all three thought that it would be a good idea if , if both families sold up and moved into something smaller and perhaps moved near to each other |
| 30 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |