Example sentences of "something [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday . |
| 2 | C is also a difficult language unless you are planning to use it full time and certainly not something to indulge in for fun . |
| 3 | ‘ I found there were limitations on conveying a point of view or a situation , and I suddenly thought : you can get a lot more information out of looking at something made up from several pictures . |
| 4 | ‘ I found there were limitations on conveying a point of view or a situation , and I suddenly thought : you can get a lot more information out of looking at something made up from several pictures . |
| 5 | She was wearing something made out of towelling , I fancy . |
| 6 | It 's something clanging round in your washing machine . |
| 7 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 8 | She counted every hundred paces , to give her something to cling on to and then , turning her head away from the gale , she shouted George 's name , cocking her head this way and that to catch any reply . |
| 9 | This would at least have saved their deposit and left them something to carry on with . |
| 10 | So she said to help Mary out she said I gave her all the sweets and chocolate I had she said so the kids could have something to go over with . |
| 11 | Here is something to go on with ; more will be sent within two days . " |
| 12 | And something to go along with our information people we speak to . |
| 13 | ‘ If Blenkinsop comes up with some facts , at least we 'll have something to go back to them on . |
| 14 | S er got one lone piece and it 's got a piece of wedge and it 's got another piece sticking up and something sticking out of that piece of branch or something sticking out of that . |
| 15 | S er got one lone piece and it 's got a piece of wedge and it 's got another piece sticking up and something sticking out of that piece of branch or something sticking out of that . |
| 16 | I thought maybe I 've got a puncture and I ca n't feel it or something sticking out of it or something but could n't see anything . |
| 17 | Then she noticed something fluttering down below her . |
| 18 | Is it something hanging over from the past ? |
| 19 | Here he is remembering Nick Kent standing around in the old NME offices in Carnaby Street talking about what Keith Richards had said to him once , when he noticed something hanging out of his leather trousers . |
| 20 | That bird up there with like some thing hanging out of its arse and then something hanging out of its mouth and I thought it was like |
| 21 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 22 | Something laid up in a place , or committed to the charge of a person , for safe keeping . |
| 23 | She 'd always have something to fall back on . |
| 24 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 25 | To compensate , she took a secretarial course : ‘ So that meant I had something to fall back on if the athletics failed . ’ |
| 26 | The real significance of reliability is something rather different : it is the reliability of knowing that there is something to fall back on , with family support acting as a safety net if really needed . |
| 27 | I 've got to have something to fall back on . |
| 28 | To Emma Durham , the Treasurer , who against difficult odds kept us solvent , to Michelle O'Callaghan , the Social Secretary , whose art of mixing cocktails ensures that she will always have something to fall back on should the need arise , and to Diane Mynors , the Housechair for her ability to seek out bargains ( how many people do you know that could get 14 bottles of dishwashing liquid for 64 p . |
| 29 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 30 | Damn Sir Edmund Pusey — he probably knew more about it than he had let on , regarding it as better for my soul or something to find out for myself . |