Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] something [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 3 | Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess . |
| 4 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 5 | I started playing about with it and later felt a real satisfaction of doing something with that girl 's head of hair that no-one had wanted to touch . |
| 6 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 7 | I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it … |
| 8 | ‘ Other accountants should n't dismiss the idea of doing something like this , ’ she adds . |
| 9 | ‘ They are both gentle and kind , and are not capable of doing something like this , let alone covering it up with such success . |
| 10 | They do not look white in virtue of having something in common ; they have something in common ( their whiteness ) in virtue of looking white . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps he 's not capable of appreciating something like that . ’ |
| 12 | For each of us ( it is said ) our lives are given sense by certain projects , whether it be that of being a certain sort of person , or of achieving something in such fields as the political , or cultural , or in our personal relations . |
| 13 | The results are pleasing to both hand and eye and seem to be a satisfying way of leaving something of lasting beauty and worth to posterity . |
| 14 | Quotation is my only means of conveying something of that artistry , of the essence of Boulestin 's writing , of his intelligence , sense and taste , of his ease of style , un-scolding , un-pompous , un-sarcastic , ineffusive , and to so high a degree inspiriting and creative . |
| 15 | erm the cost of of insuring something like that would make it erm out of play basically . |
| 16 | Do you realise what it 's like having something like this hanging over your head ? ’ |
| 17 | well what 's easier , starting from scratch with a new thing that a cabinet maker has made or re refurbishing work like doing something over that 's had marks and stuff ? |
| 18 | I 've been thinking about doing something like that , ’ I said , more out of politeness than accuracy . |
| 19 | Nobody kills anyone for saying something like that . |
| 20 | I 'm only talking about having something like four sheets for the , in total . |
| 21 | No point in rushing something like this . ’ |
| 22 | Apart from learning something about front-end loaded deals and arbitrageurs Maxim found it restored his faith in American trains . |
| 23 | And I think you can see that the , the word transference here is , is in the sense that transference erm , alludes to transferring something from one place to another , as if the feeling , which were originally experienced , for example , in the family , were being transferred to the , to the analytic situation , to the , to the analysis . |
| 24 | The beginning of conversation with strangers is all about finding something in common — or , to put it more succinctly and to use a very 1990s ' word , to discover commonality . |
| 25 | it 's following on from what Geoff was saying er and I think it 's perhaps worth mentioning something about coastal zone management and estuary management . |
| 26 | ‘ How about trying something on these lines : |
| 27 | But you have to be careful that by doing something like that you 're not making life completely onerous |