Example sentences of "but something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The labours of his protesting stomach had corroded his dark skin with pustules ; he was still sharp of bone and languid in movement , but something of the family vigour was visible . |
| 2 | Kuhn 's direction has accuracy and breadth on its side , and also just speeds , but something of the incandescence this score calls for is missing . |
| 3 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 4 | Well , of course , there are big atoms and small atoms hydrogen is a very small atom , uranium is a big atom — but something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a centimetre . |
| 5 | but something on the outskirts of the Garden City might be O K perhaps on the northern side |
| 6 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 7 | The style of Mrs Praga 's book , Dainty Dinner Tables and How to Decorate Them ( published in 1907 ) , may be archaic , but something about the tone and even the context is curiously familiar . |
| 8 | But something about the sheet of paper , lying with its contents reflected unreadably in the mirror , drew him towards it . |
| 9 | These exact boundaries date from local government reorganization in 1974 but something like the present administrative area has existed since the establishment of regional commissioners for the maintenance of supplies in the 1920s . |
| 10 | But something like the choir or where you 've been working , I do n't know you , I , I 've got this thing which is |
| 11 | The attribute whiteness ( it may be said ) is not the fact of receiving the sensation , but something in the object itself ; a power inherent in it ; something in virtue of which the object produces the sensation ’ . |
| 12 | He had not meant to be the first to speak , but something in the other 's silence compelled him . |
| 13 | It was hot and muscular , not a smell but something in the air . |
| 14 | But something in the way Chambers kept glancing sidelong at her kept her on her guard . |
| 15 | There was only the one word , but something in the way he looked made her hesitate . |
| 16 | He did n't break his stride or slow down , and she practically had to run to keep up with him , but something in the set of his jaw worried her . |