Example sentences of "were something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 2 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 3 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 4 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |