Example sentences of "something [adj] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stops the jesses becoming twisted , and it also gives you something strong to attach a leash to . |
| 2 | Her voice blew away the cobwebs and I put on something respectable to cross the road ; she sounded like a child going to a party . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , the means are conceived as really or probably existing , then the speaker feels that there is something real occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event , and so uses to , as in ( 37 ) and ( 38 ) above . |
| 4 | It must be something serious to turn the students loose on it . |
| 5 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 6 | You asked for something rarer lasts a bit longer . |
| 7 | Their bleedings and leakages , their lumps and growths , their peculiarly painful-sounding surgical operations — scraping of wombs , stripping of veins , amputation of breasts — the mere mention of such things makes him wince and cringe , and lately the menopause has added new items to the repertory : the hot flush , flooding , and something sinister called a bloat . |
| 8 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |
| 9 | I came here with Father Herluin , grieving for Ramsey 's wrongs , and longing to do something great to benefit the restoration of our house . |
| 10 | Out on the bay , something enormous broke the surface . |
| 11 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been something important to break a friendship over . ’ |
| 13 | I feel that the water company should do something constructive to solve the problem they have engineered , and perhaps other readers feel the same way as we do . |
| 14 | It should have been a family event , something special to celebrate the centenery . |
| 15 | Something special to catch the eye , and never much of it ; thus was not money made , and Rose knew it . |