Example sentences of "something [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It 's something in between a baseball hat and a and a jockey
2 Now then , you go back to your mum , I 'll write something down on a prescription here for you .
3 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 .
4 This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign .
5 And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump .
6 There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals .
7 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 .
8 Well what we might have to do is concoct something up on a letter , a stand have you a standard charge ?
9 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 .
10 ‘ It looks like something out of a story book . ’
11 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 .
12 It was like something out of a film set — and not the sort of film that was recommended for family viewing .
13 It 's like something out of a fairy story .
14 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 .
15 The magic was being able to step into a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress and imagine you had found something out of a dressing-up box .
16 It sounds like something out of a horror movie .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 ‘ whole areas that looked like something out of a horror film …
20 It sounds like something out of a horror film .
21 ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris .
22 They were like something out of a nightmare .
23 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 .
24 ‘ It looked like something out of a war zone .
25 The house was immaculate and had been furnished , as far as she could tell , like something out of a design magazine .
26 ‘ You look like something out of a pantomime .
27 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 .
28 ‘ When I first met you , in that bar , you were all cut out round the edges , like something out of a cereal packet that does n't stand up when you 've made it . ’
29 Instead of Alexandra with her tawny hair loose about her shoulders , he saw a muscle-bound Fury wielding a rolling-pin , like something out of a Christmas pantomime .
30 Like something out of a picture book ,
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