Example sentences of "[verb] something [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable . |
| 2 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 3 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 4 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 5 | Similarly , er we have actually er taken something of the same attitudes towards windfall sites within the urban areas . |
| 6 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 7 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 8 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 9 | He does , indeed , say something about the latter . |
| 10 | The image , of course , centres around the fact that faith and doubt have something of the same curious relationship as health and sickness . |