Example sentences of "something [adj] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Something present in a flash , intuitively seen to be necessary , which can not be otherwise . ’ |
| 32 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 33 | Perhaps she could stay just the one night , then look for something cheaper in the morning . |
| 34 | You do n't have to worry about swearing or , Sue swore something terrible in the car this morning ! |
| 35 | No doubt there was something comic in the situation and I suppose that was what set my mind wandering in the direction of Farmer Bailes ' dog , Shep . |
| 36 | There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults . |
| 37 | What seems to be required now is something more in the nature of a decision . |
| 38 | Anyhow , something dreadful in the way of retribution had occurred , in the nature of things . |
| 39 | The business-like approach is right , but there is something disturbing in the implication that intellectual stimulation and education , in its wider sense , have little to do with passing the exams . |
| 40 | Many people doubt because they have left out something important in the way they have come to believe . |
| 41 | Will he look at last Monday 's Adjournment debate and see that there is another side to the story , before we start , heaven knows , on sanctions that will hurt the 36 British companies in Libya , which are led , by for example , Brown and Root , and which could lead to something worse in the form of another strike ? |
| 42 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 43 | I 'll get Annunziata to keep something hot in the kitchen and then if you 'd rather not be bothered with us tonight , you can have it there — or in bed , if that would be better , ’ said Julia , her heart feeling as though it were held in a tightening vice as she saw his misery . |
| 44 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |
| 45 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 46 | Later , I believe , it was taken out of her hands for , having said something disobliging in an interview , she was blacklisted , and another woman of the same name had difficulty in entering the country . |
| 47 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 48 | ‘ For the size of the school , we have done some remarkable things , ’ added the 47-year-old , who has something musical in the pipeline every term at the school which , over the years , has variously been known as the North of England Agricultural School , Ayton School , The Friends School , Great Ayton , and recently reverted to Ayton School . |
| 49 | ‘ I should like to bury something precious in every place where I 've been happy , ’ Sebastian had once told him , after wine and strawberries on a summer hilltop , ‘ and then , when I was old and ugly and miserable , I could come back and dig it up and remember . ’ |
| 50 | There was something spinsterish in Betty 's plans for her salad , something intimate in her expectation that Lydia would collude with her , and something repellent in the prospect of two single women fussing over food in the kitchen . |
| 51 | It introduced to the language the phrase about ‘ something nasty in the woodshed ’ . |
| 52 | Something nasty in the freezer awaits Mike ‘ Wayne ’ Myers |
| 53 | Suppose one of them had put something nasty in the food by error — or by purpose . |
| 54 | I had already made my debut in Scrutiny , however , and he may have felt that this made it appropriate that I should have something equivalent in The Criterion . |
| 55 | ‘ Nothing I can think of , unless you want something fancy in the way of cheeses . |
| 56 | Ajayi smiled and shook her head ; she put her hand just to one side of the glittering projected line of squares and seemed to fumble with something invisible in the air . |
| 57 | There 's something new in the river the fish said as it swam . |
| 58 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |