Example sentences of "something [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about a farmer 's wife ? |
| 2 | ‘ You , Constable , said something about a conjuror 's patter . ’ |
| 3 | The matrix therefore represents the cross references between what is seen and the constructs that come to be applied in making sense of the experience and , by recording these , it is able to illuminate something of a person 's way of thinking and responding . |
| 4 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 5 | To some extent advertising was something of a gentleman 's game . |
| 6 | Without a real , head-knocking manager of his programme , the administration continues to live in something of a fool 's paradise . |
| 7 | He and his wife were about to undertake a trip to America and Australia , which in the event developed into something of a busman 's holiday as he was persuaded , perhaps not against his will , to address numerous meetings of trade unionists on the West Coast of the United States and elsewhere . |
| 8 | Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it . |
| 9 | The sheer number of sets required per week made this story something of a Designer 's nightmare for Raymond Cusick . |
| 10 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 11 | This is called ‘ snowflake ’ obsidian , and is something of a collector 's item . |
| 12 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 13 | All this I learn from the official match programme , price sixpence and now something of a collector 's item . |
| 14 | Which , from a man who had fought a hook for a goodly part of his life , was something of a collector 's item . |
| 15 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |
| 16 | The Act was destined to become something of a cause célèbre among successive generations of floggers who would fondly remember ( although without a shred of evidence to support their claim ) how flogging had put down the garotters and could be relied upon to stop Hooligans or Teddy Boys . |
| 17 | Schlunk , something of a cause célèbre . |
| 18 | The " moderately strenuous " walk , I remember , was about 15 miles , usually " ovver t'top " ; the " moderate " walk , something of a defaulters ' parade composed mainly of malingerers and amateurs like myself was a mere 10 miles . |
| 19 | The passage cost £6 , or something like a year 's wages and for repayment the indenture might run from four to seven years — though they would , of course , have to be fed and clothed in that period . |
| 20 | And then y when you came into the stockyard with a Caw , Caw , li like a a crow saying it was just something like a crow 's nest . |
| 21 | In the dream there 's always this room , something like a gardener 's hut or a potting-shed . |
| 22 | I 've seen myself take something like a rabbit 's foot into an interview , ’ says Mr Strouthos . |
| 23 | Mr Graham would always take the view that this ‘ dignity ’ was something like a woman 's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it . |
| 24 | The example cited is something like a dentist 's surgery where the system has to cope with payroll , patient records , appointments and the like . |
| 25 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 26 | Somebody 's car alarm 's gone off no , right , now this where lots and lots of people used to really moan , the , the person that was having a fit would absolutely go through hell because somebody at some stage had said oh you must put something in a person 's mouth that has epilepsy . |
| 27 | He was like something from a Boy 's Own comic . |
| 28 | A small white dressing table In one corner looked like something from a doll 's house , gleaming and bright with tidy arrangements of bottles and jars . |
| 29 | ‘ Copper Blue ’ has a more upbeat fictional stories — Man On The Moon is almost like a limerick or something from a children 's book — but on the other hand there 's something like The Slim , which might be the harshest thing I 've ever written . |