Example sentences of "something [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Sculley at Apple Computer Inc is another name that has been canvassed , and he is the exception that proves the rule that an outsider ca n't run a computer company , but he came in fascinated by the business and devoted all his efforts in the early days learning about it for himself rather than relying on his minions , something no-one taking over IBM now has time to do . |
| 2 | This is something I 've suggested before , something I keep on suggesting because it 's all I can think of . |
| 3 | And the other one is , now this is something I heard on erm , Radio F M yesterday , where apparently Richard Strauss was challenged about the complexity of r of a piece of work , and er , he responding by saying , the devil I can not make it simpler . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself . |
| 5 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 6 | It is not difficult to fill the stands and this creates an electrifying atmosphere , which is something I thrive on . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's something I thrive on and it 's something I can handle quite well mentally . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's something I thrive on and it 's something I can handle quite well mentally . ’ |
| 9 | It 's something I picked up in the Trow . ’ |
| 10 | That someone else believes something , expects something , and so on , is something I find out about by observation . |
| 11 | That I believe something , expect something , or whatever , is not something I find out about by observation . |
| 12 | He waited for some sign of agreement from her but none came and he went on , ‘ It was something I found out . ’ |
| 13 | The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy . |
| 14 | She reported on his ‘ good imagination , something which shows up particularly in his drawings which always contain fine detail , . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm stunned that something which started out as a game turned so quickly into something so frighteningly real . ’ |
| 16 | We can not agree to something which starts off by being so fundamentally discriminatory that , year by year , it becomes even more discriminatory . |
| 17 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 18 | Her other recreation is playing the violin , something she took up at the age of 11 when she went on to become a member of the Preston Youth Orchestra . |
| 19 | ‘ just something she made up . ’ |
| 20 | it sounds like something you get on |
| 21 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ it 's like so many things in life — something you go through with once , because you have to . |
| 22 | It 's not something you go about consciously . |
| 23 | They all wore Peter Pan collars and thought cleavage was something butchers did , we were before vitamin , vitamin pills , disposal diapers , Q E one , jeeps , pizzas , instant coffee and Kentucky Fried was n't even thought of , in our day cigarette smoking was fashionable , grass was for mowing , pot was something you cooked in . |
| 24 | Cancer was something you cut out and that was that . |
| 25 | It 's something you have inside you , something you breathe in and out , a different skin maybe . |
| 26 | Happily , at the time of going to print the craze is dying a death , as consumers realise that £500 is a lot to pay for something you carry about on one shoulder , and that as a social status symbol it is as impressive as a 1979 Cortina without wheels propped up on bricks . |
| 27 | Can you even remember whether this had been volunteered to you , weeks or months before or is this something you found out by asking around that day ? |
| 28 | ‘ … and it was so exciting , like something you read about , you know , but you never dream it could happen to you . |
| 29 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 30 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |