Example sentences of "[verb] something [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The taxi driver scribbled something indecipherable upon the back of a Woodbine packet and handed it to Cornelius . |
| 2 | My view is that the religious believer who makes a credal statement such as ‘ I believe in God ’ is affirming something similar to the believer in ghosts . |
| 3 | Professor Woolf argues that an older person purchasing a walking frame in order to remain on his or her feet is no less natural than a parent purchasing something similar for an infant learning to walk . |
| 4 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 5 | That was how he built something extra into the programme . ’ |
| 6 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 7 | I 'll have to find something nice for a wedding present . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Nothing I can think of , unless you want something fancy in the way of cheeses . |
| 9 | If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings . |
| 10 | If you have a group of parents who want something particular from a school and are going to organise themselves into a group to pressurise that school , they 'll do it whether there 's a P T A there or not . |
| 11 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 12 | It is difficult to tell how much of Dustin 's discomfiture during the making of the film seeped through into his portrayal , but it might have added something uneasy to the character of Benjamin . |
| 13 | I 'm really surprised that you expect something logical from an outfit that released their second album well in the wake of their third . |
| 14 | ‘ For the size of the school , we have done some remarkable things , ’ added the 47-year-old , who has something musical in the pipeline every term at the school which , over the years , has variously been known as the North of England Agricultural School , Ayton School , The Friends School , Great Ayton , and recently reverted to Ayton School . |
| 15 | It came out as an exclamation , and she heard the controller mutter something uncomplimentary through the headphones , but she did n't care . |
| 16 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 17 | Barrymore reported something interesting about the footprints . |
| 18 | Not only Euclid , but Galileo too , had grown something worthwhile from the seeds of natural reason . |
| 19 | She simply was n't destined to get any rest , so she might as well do something useful with the empty hours . |
| 20 | ‘ Now — I 've decided we should do something special at the club . ’ |
| 21 | After a while he said slowly , ‘ I see that you too have noticed something strange about the picture . |
| 22 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 23 | The police want to talk to anyone who may have seen something suspicious near the school on Sunday afternoon when the fire occurred . |
| 24 | Old friends of the Chesapeake , they noticed something alarming beneath the water : the submerged grasses that used to carpet the river 's bottom were disappearing . |
| 25 | ‘ No-one 's supposed to know what it means — most people think we 've done something odd with the word tartan . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 27 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 28 | They had also done something terrible to the boiler , and discovered dry rot in the airing-cupboard . |
| 29 | Later , I believe , it was taken out of her hands for , having said something disobliging in an interview , she was blacklisted , and another woman of the same name had difficulty in entering the country . |
| 30 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |