Example sentences of "[vb pp] something [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 2 | Their doctor had murmured something about a weak heart , but Lord Grafton had dismissed the warning , saying the physician was an old woman . |
| 3 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 4 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |
| 5 | They were more articulate , had seen something of the wider world , retained a thirst for knowledge , and were sceptical towards the Church . |
| 6 | We have seen something of the various situations in which non-fatal physical harm might occur . |
| 7 | But he had certainly seen something of the Greek civilization , with its philosophic schools , theatres and gymnasia . |
| 8 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 9 | Kylie , who 's undergone something of a radical image change in the last few months , has just released her new album , ‘ Let's Get To It ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've done something with a western that I 've never see before . |
| 11 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 12 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 13 | Unlike the skin-heads and punks of a later generation , or the teddy boys who preceded this era , many ‘ flower children ’ were non-violent and in their communitas even exhibited something of a constructive element . |
| 14 | It was years since he had read it but he thought Jung had said something about the universal need for secret societies . |
| 15 | At a World Cup : ‘ The manager must have said something in the Dutch dressing gown at half-time . ’ |
| 16 | The only human explanation was that one of us had said something in an unguarded moment . |
| 17 | But the city has also revealed something about the American voter , something that belies the conventional wisdom that all that counts is the big-buck campaigns with their television adverts and ‘ issues ’ tailored to every fractured constituency . |
| 18 | Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price . |
| 19 | ‘ Though I 'm surprised you have n't got something on a grander scale . ’ |
| 20 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 21 | Oh the story of this particular one is that it er er they tried to make out that the erm that the the the the shark has actually got something against the human beings on this boat and it keeps chasing them . |
| 22 | In our annual reports in Dumbarton Oaks Papers we have shown something of the extraordinary nature of the church and its decoration and shed much new light on the period immediately before Justinian . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't expect anything in the nationals , of course , ’ he said , frowning , ‘ but I thought one of the local rags might have had something about a missing boat . ’ |
| 24 | NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch . |
| 25 | It has also developed something of an international character ; not only does it attract a proportion of its students from overseas , but it also has strong links with overseas institutions . |
| 26 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 27 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 28 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 29 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 30 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |