Example sentences of "something [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |
| 2 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 3 | It 's something in between a baseball hat and a and a jockey |
| 4 | Now then , you go back to your mum , I 'll write something down on a prescription here for you . |
| 5 | It 's no good writing something down as an option unless you actually have the power to do it . |
| 6 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 7 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 8 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 9 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 10 | Durance himself may manage something once in a while , but there is no one who can help him achieve those masterpieces in the way that Jourdain did . |
| 11 | Well what we might have to do is concoct something up on a letter , a stand have you a standard charge ? |
| 12 | Well used to the treasures of the foreshore , the dealer wiped the gleaming surfaces free , not with water this time , but with something out of a bottle . |
| 13 | ‘ It looks like something out of a story book . ’ |
| 14 | Hari 's hands were suddenly still , the leather clinging to the last , while she tried to envisage herself wearing fine crinolines and rich jewels , it was like something out of a dream . |
| 15 | It was like something out of a film set — and not the sort of film that was recommended for family viewing . |
| 16 | It 's like something out of a fairy story . |
| 17 | it 's very beautiful in the glen , like something out of a fairy tale , and there 's a picturesque waterfall which is a major tourist attraction . |
| 18 | The magic was being able to step into a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress and imagine you had found something out of a dressing-up box . |
| 19 | It sounds like something out of a horror movie . |
| 20 | People find it difficult to believe in a personification of evil that looks like something out of a horror movie or a cut-out from a medieval painting . |
| 21 | Contrast this optimism with Sir Richard Attenborough 's ( President of Arts for health ) description of West Middlesex University Hospital , a former workhouse : ‘ whole areas that looked like something out of a horror film ; the paint — under the onslaught of incurable rising damp , literally falling off — and plaster beneath erupting into monstrous carbuncles oozing slimy mould . |
| 22 | ‘ whole areas that looked like something out of a horror film … |
| 23 | It sounds like something out of a horror film . |
| 24 | ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris . |
| 25 | They were like something out of a nightmare . |
| 26 | The stupid part is , recently I noticed a girl at our local swimming pool , painfully emaciated , like something out of a concentration camp , who came every morning to swim lengths , as I do . |
| 27 | ‘ It looked like something out of a war zone . |
| 28 | The house was immaculate and had been furnished , as far as she could tell , like something out of a design magazine . |
| 29 | ‘ You look like something out of a pantomime . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power . |