Example sentences of "[was/were] something [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind .
2 The latter were a bonus ( for me , too ) as he can spot an aeroplane before it is visible to me , and these were something new in the sky .
3 Nobody can say that depressions were something peculiar to the 1930s .
4 There was something pejorative about the word , so that to some atonal music meant ‘ non-music ’ , or at least something ugly and unpleasant .
5 There was something stimulating about the warmed air so heavy with the smells of living .
6 ‘ Because there was something foul about the set-up at the Jenner Clinic , and they do n't want it made public . ’
7 ‘ Or what , Liessa ? ’ said the old man ( in this dim light there was something odd about the way he was slumped in the stone chair ) .
8 There was something odd about the whole procedure because there was no great urgency .
9 There was something odd about the way the plane was rolling ; one wheel was broken .
10 But there was something odd about the family
11 I knew there was something odd about the way you kissed me , and — ’
12 Then Laura appeared , and there was something odd in the manner of her appearance .
13 There was something odd in the way Faye was looking … no , peering … at those pictures , shifting the book or her head as if she had to see past some obstruction to get a good look .
14 There was something cabalistic about the bandy legs of a road sweeper , who stood with his back to me leaning on his outstretched broom as on a catamaran while he lit his pipe … .
15 But that boy was different ; there was something nasty about the way he looked at you .
16 She used to toss her head as she passed me , as if I was something nasty on the roadside that should n't be looked at .
17 There was something fishy about the whole set-up .
18 There was something familiar about the checked suit , lit up by the flashing blue light .
19 There was something familiar about the way the man 's long hair fell at the nape of his neck , and his posture as he knelt in front of a small hoy who was stamping his foot and refusing to kick the ball .
20 There was something familiar about the feminine umbrella with its orange roses and Spanish flamenco frill that was shaken firmly before the green headsquared figure bent to enter .
21 ‘ I felt very tense about it — I had a gut feeling there was something awful around the corner , ’ she says .
22 But I could see there was something monk-like about the space there .
23 Mendeleev used these relationships to predict the existence and properties of undiscovered elements ; and with the discovery of Gallium , Scandium and Germanium his predictions were found to have been astonishingly accurate , convincing chemists that there was something real behind the arrangement .
24 There was something creepy about the noises of water and wood that on shore were exciting .
25 But now there was something new about the way she watched him .
26 There was something cruel about the smile flickering around his mouth .
27 There was something sad about the exchange — and a finality that he , by no means , approved of or desired .
28 For a second I considered whether I might not be able to make a meal from the remains , but , not only was the edge off my appetite , there was something repulsive about the thought of eating carrion , however fresh it looked .
29 There was something strange about the preacher 's shades .
30 The general feeling in the town was that there was something strange about the Judge 's House .
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