Example sentences of "something [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 2 | She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice . |
| 3 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 4 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 5 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 6 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 7 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 8 | Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification . |
| 9 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 10 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 11 | Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo . |
| 12 | Something new , something up to date was needed . |
| 13 | But after you reach a certain stage in life — I 'd put it somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five — you suddenly feel you are as secure as you can be and you really ought to give something back to society . |
| 14 | Wanting a context for their work , many feel a conscious need ‘ to give something back to society ’ , to justify a ‘ self-indulgent ’ pastime , avoiding what they see as the stereotype of the male artist as self-obsessed . |
| 15 | If you have to stop him doing one thing , provide something else to interest and occupy him . |
| 16 | For instance , using wa rather than something closer to English however ( third sentence in the English text ) , reads smoothly in Arabic but sacrifices some of the precision of the English conjunction . |
| 17 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |