Example sentences of "something [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm whether we want to add something on to the agenda that would make it more acceptable to them like health and safety or whatever . |
| 2 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 3 | Tallis could not see clearly but he seemed to be pushing something on to the staff , working it round until , with a crack , it slid into position . |
| 4 | ‘ It is something on at the Tower of London . ’ |
| 5 | About background , like with most people , there 's always something on in the background |
| 6 | What happens in practice is often something in between the two extremes outlined here . |
| 7 | ‘ Why should she do that ? ’ my mother had asked scornfully , slapping something down on the kitchen table a fish , I think . |
| 8 | There 's something down on the subject . |
| 9 | Then I remembered someone who could : the person could not stand cash , but was maybe prepared to put something up of the value of £500 . |
| 10 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 11 | And of course er when an article became , when you needed an article or something broke down in the car and you needed to m=make something up on the lathe o it was made on the premises . |
| 12 | Perhaps Jackson has turned something up at the hospital . |
| 13 | Forensic will get something up off the grass . ’ |
| 14 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 15 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |
| 16 | Coming back early from school one afternoon , she passed the dining-room window and saw her mother cutting something out on the table . |
| 17 | She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping . |
| 18 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 19 | The terrain here was more open , like something out of the Wild West , with deeply eroded crags and ravines . |
| 20 | I was stealing something out of the film : I had captured the stars in the act , and they could n't slip away , off the edge of the screen . |
| 21 | There were bomb sites around and a lot of it looked like something out of the Ealing comedies . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |
| 23 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 24 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 25 | Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot . |
| 26 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 27 | The scene looked like something out of The Munsters with all these Quiet Man caricature Irishmen hanging around . |
| 28 | An unusual fairy godmother — the Treasury — came to the rescue with a ¼ p.c. reduction in betting duty which enabled both sides to get something out of the negotiations and allowed the Home Secretary to please everyone , something which home secretaries rarely find an opportunity to do . |
| 29 | She turned away to get something out of the fridge , which turned out to be a glass bowl full of trifle . |
| 30 | That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up . |