Example sentences of "he [vb past] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | He whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda . |
| 3 | Already something of an embarrassment after the publicity surrounding the leak of his report , he became something of a liability when the results of the polygraph tests also leaked out to the press . |
| 4 | In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then , as Palace managers came and went , Vince 's role was constantly changing , so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next . |
| 5 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 6 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 7 | He hummed something from a Beethoven cello sonata . |
| 8 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 9 | In 1901 , as a member of the British congress on tuberculosis , he created something of a sensation . |
| 10 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 11 | Dalgliesh felt that it was time he contributed something to the speculation . |
| 12 | He muttered something about the place being primitive . |
| 13 | He muttered something in the direction of his wife , something about ‘ if she had a moment ’ . |
| 14 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 15 | Indeed he caused something of a turn-up when he named a Swede as one of his three wild card selections in the 12-man side to meet the United States at the Belfry at the end of the month . |
| 16 | And he said he noticed something on the path but he could n't see what it was . |
| 17 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |
| 18 | He developed something of a studio to produce his most popular views . |
| 19 | He saw something behind a lot of old boxes . |
| 20 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 21 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 22 | After a while he boiled something in the blackened tin suspended over the fire , stirring it with a white peeled twig , and then plunging the tin into the stream to cool it . |
| 23 | Partly it resulted from a preference in his subject-matter for concrete cultural and social detail over Adorno 's tendency towards abstraction of social process : for instance , he offered something like a phenomenology of the ‘ shocks ’ inherent in modern city life ; he discussed actual and potential production practices within modern media , derived from his enthusiasm for Brecht 's ‘ epic theatre ’ ; he focused less on the totalities of aesthetic form than on the fluidities of technique , the conditions of production , and the variable nature of reception . |
| 24 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 25 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 26 | The tuition he received gave Mendoros a profound respect for GE , but at the same time he learned something about the limitations of giant companies . |
| 27 | And er I was out with him , his er his dad was dead his elder brother was crippled , and he had a job of is wo Wilkinson and Phil Kilpacks next door , he did something with the sweets and jam I think . |
| 28 | He did something to a friend of mine , two years ago . |
| 29 | No , no he , he unstuck er a drain and then said he did something on the roof |
| 30 | He had something of a Huckleberry Finn spirit , wanting to run away to sea . |