Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled . |
| 2 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 3 | I was something of a child prodigy . |
| 4 | So I was something of a godsend for her . |
| 5 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 6 | Which was something of a racket , plus Bazooka Joe kept on pulling the plugs on us trying to get us off the stage . |
| 7 | He was filmed , interviewed , and provided with ‘ ghosts ’ who helped him to ‘ write ’ nine books , one of them a thriller called The Test Match Surprise which was something of a best seller in the sixpenny ‘ Readers ' Library ’ ss popular in Woolworth 's in the 1920s . |
| 8 | If you did end up as a German , however , you still played to win and I can remember a kind of perverse pleasure in being determined to win , even though I was a German , which was something of a contradiction . |
| 9 | Nicholson 's own idea was , in fact , to write the first existentialist cowboy story , which was something of a departure from the current genre ; he was surely right in his assumption that Corman might not see the potential , if such existed . |
| 10 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 11 | Mr Broadhurst himself was something of an alchemist . |
| 12 | She was something of a celebrity at the Egon Schultz School . |
| 13 | By all accounts she was something of a beauty . |
| 14 | Samuel Johnson , who was something of a hero of the new school , once remarked that a man is seldom so innocently employed as when he is making money , and that celebrated remark might serve as a slogan for much of modern British fiction . |
| 15 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 16 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 17 | The famous example of a prominent scientist and Christian who was something like a fundamentalist is Philip Gosse . |
| 18 | We were something of a phantom museum . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 20 | There was no one else : Cal 's two older brothers worked away — one was something in The City . |
| 21 | And there was something about a large tortoise stove , freshly done with first-class blacklead and plenty of elbow-grease , that gladdened your eyes . |
| 22 | There was something about a girl he wanted to bring and there was something to do with stones . |
| 23 | ‘ There was something about a Bronze Age , I believe . |
| 24 | But er there was something about a servant lass that got pregnant . |
| 25 | There was something about a chair . |
| 26 | There was something about the firm set of her body that Jay knew instinctively : she was a survivor . |
| 27 | There was something about the prospective return of Vincent that cheered Rim . |
| 28 | There was something about the girl . |
| 29 | There was something about the care with which he looked into your eyes that was truly frightening . |
| 30 | Elspeth was fair-haired , almost blonde , Rebecca was dark but there was something about the eyes they had in common , yet where Elspeth was grave and silent most of the time , Rebecca , or Becky as she was usually called , was lively and voluble . |