Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] something [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . |
| 2 | The nudes owe something to those of Bill Brandt done in the late 1940s and early 50s , but as in all his work Friedlander 's choice of vantage point and his use of irony forces questions on the viewer , rather than supplying answers . |
| 3 | When you see Chelsea fans applaud something like that it makes you wonder . |
| 4 | well ca n't we parents do something about this ? , |
| 5 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 6 | Many Salvadoreans fear something like this . |
| 7 | Do you , I wonder if you think your a good driver , I mean there are , I mean I , I should remind you there are five thousand people killed on Britain 's roads every year , there are sixty three thousand people seriously injured , they reckon that car accidents cost something like five thousand million pounds in Britain every year . |
| 8 | Certain psychological processes have something of this quality , too , and although we can achieve a degree of insight and control over them , they need to be handled with care . |
| 9 | The Cartesians concede something like this in the case of brute animal life . |
| 10 | Gipsies wear something like that round their necks . |
| 11 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |
| 12 | In the more restricted circumstances in Britain , where such households are smaller and contacts between women in different households in some respects more difficult , women lose something of this support network although they may gain a greater degree of independence in their interactions with men . |