Example sentences of "[prep] something [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bith , Culdub , ca n't you think of something we can do ? |
| 2 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 3 | It had the swoop and the lilt of something one might have heard blaring out of a Turkish café . |
| 4 | He noted that the Canberra meeting ‘ is the start of something which could grow into a very significant development not only for the region but for the global economy . ’ |
| 5 | The knowledge or vision of something which will occur in the future . |
| 6 | I try to think of something I can say that 's better than just I 'm sorry , but my brain has dried up . |
| 7 | ‘ The death of the remand prisoner , ’ Fairham interjected , as if reminding Nicholson of something he might have forgotten . |
| 8 | You can use abstracts as an indication of something you might want to read , or you can just read and learn from the abstracts themselves . |
| 9 | I wish you 'd think of something you would like for your birthday . |
| 10 | I wish you would think of something you would like for your birthday |
| 11 | ‘ Let's think about it some more — but it sounds like something we could go for . ’ |
| 12 | It must sound like something you would say spontaneously . |
| 13 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 14 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 15 | Very occasionally he 's given me tinned stuff and pretty naff it is , too : bland and soft , like something you 'd give a kitten . |
| 16 | To one side was a row of lights which flickered on and off like something you 'd get |
| 17 | He looked like something you 'd frighten children with on Halloween . |
| 18 | ONE WOULD not normally think a national awareness day for something which could affect as many as one in three of the population would be necessary . |
| 19 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 20 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 21 | How do you know you 're not paying now for something you 'll get later ? ) |
| 22 | Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany . |
| 23 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 24 | The man who had severed his traditional local ties to live in the impersonal and anonymous city searched for something he could identify with , for new loyalties and attachments . |
| 25 | May we learn to be caring and considerate and come to look upon everyone in the world as our brothers and sisters — people whose lives might be improved through something we can offer . |
| 26 | We 're also going to ask you to create your own press release about something you 'd like to create , in a sense . |
| 27 | The great thing about Dave and Max being such perfectionists is that when they were both pleased with something I 'd figure , ‘ Hey , I must be doing something really right here ! ’ |
| 28 | Personally , I prefer my fingerboards either to be bound with something you can see or left plain as nature intended , but for some reason Saga obviously like their fret-ends disguised . |
| 29 | A little sick or badly sick , sick with something you can catch or not catch ? ’ |
| 30 | The future of the two alliances is in the balance , and the Soviet side is already eager to restructure the Warsaw Pact into something which may look more like the Commonwealth than the Moscow-dominated monolith of the still recent past . |