Example sentences of "something [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these future estates , though it gave no present right to possession or enjoyment , was treated as something already in existence , which could be disposed of and would descend ( so far as it is inheritable ) just like a present estate . |
| 2 | There has to be something already in existence — a theory , a practice , an artefact — for criticism to have any purchase . |
| 3 | So I said " I 'll take something just in case , if you do n't mind , Mother . " |
| 4 | Usually got a Cortina or something outside for sale , you know ? |
| 5 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 6 | One of his first papers was called the neuro psychoses of defence , and defence meant fending something away from consciousness , what he later called repression . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice . |
| 9 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 10 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 13 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 14 | Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification . |
| 15 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo . |
| 18 | Working the plain rows teaches you something further about lace knitting , the holes have to be isolated by at least one stitch and one row . |
| 19 | The colour harmonies of La Paysanne and other works of the period are mostly predominantly earthy , creating a sensation of something midway between wood and flesh . |
| 20 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |
| 21 | Stare at something immediately in front of you and make a mental note of what you can see above that object and below it , to the right and to the left . |
| 22 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 23 | There 's something here about bed . |
| 24 | He says you should go , go jogging or something late at night . |
| 25 | The whole history of science is full of examples of scientists happening to notice something almost by accident and being stimulated to ask why this has happened . |
| 26 | So what I 'm saying is , is getting a delivery if you ca n't get something there in time I mean , it may mean that you know in advance that you need something done and you can deliver in a normal working week , but maybe it 's inconvenient in a normal working week . |
| 27 | Er yes , I was going to say something else about Saga . |
| 28 | But Friends of the Earth had n't quite finished yet ; there was something else about golf they did n't like — the cars . |
| 29 | There 's something else about use of space as well . |
| 30 | We 'd go to all the shops along our and there was some shops , with bags hoping to get something else besides rubbish . |