Example sentences of "[verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may lack something in her diet , obviously in her additives . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Unix System Labs , which has a good server story but may lack something on the desktop end like applications , is reportedly trying to get Quorum interested in Destiny . |
| 3 | With provocation we do not describe something as it is or as it could be . |
| 4 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 5 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 6 | He grabbed the paper back , scribbled something else and shoved it over to me again . |
| 7 | She scribbled something on her memo pad and slid the paper across the desk to him . |
| 8 | The taxi driver scribbled something indecipherable upon the back of a Woodbine packet and handed it to Cornelius . |
| 9 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Tom , dear , by the time I 've asked you to pass something , and you 've said what and where is it and did n't I mean the other one , I can get this oven done and the baby born I should think . ’ |
| 11 | I have mentioned aspects of the debate on the inclusion of the subjective self into an ethnography ; now I hope to weave aspects of this subjective self into a scientific construct , revealing something of police culture along the way as I briefly explore some of my own early career moves . |
| 12 | By admitting all that , you are revealing something quite intimate about yourself . |
| 13 | It was an innocent enough remark but it triggered something inside her . |
| 14 | Neither Rosamond Lehmann nor Anita Brookner , for example , should really be called postmodernist , since they follow after modernism , adopting something of its idiom and methods , without , as McHale suggests , following on from the work of the modernists by not only adopting their idiom , but adapting it into recognizably new and separate extensions of their own . |
| 15 | They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude . |
| 16 | That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for . |
| 17 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 18 | I thought , like , I mean , is n't the basic idea of psychoanalysis is that , you know that , that these people are repressing something and that 's studying , and the question is how well , can you arrive at what they were repressing , by just sort of secondhand , you know , I mean |
| 19 | It is justified if the head of government is challenging something powerful . |
| 20 | At least last night had clarified something . |
| 21 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 22 | But if they ever cut the money or knock something off , we 'd be in deep . |
| 23 | It 's not surprising , therefore , that with all this emphasis upon grading the members of this department have not got around to experimenting with self-assessment , although both felt they might try and introduce something along these lines for the next fourth year . |
| 24 | But I agree with Stuart , I think what we 've got be careful is that if we 're gon na introduce something , it is actually erm capable of being enforced and it 's very difficult to see us an enforcing agent . |
| 25 | My view is that the religious believer who makes a credal statement such as ‘ I believe in God ’ is affirming something similar to the believer in ghosts . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note ( cf point 5 p. 109 above ) that this is a seemingly negative phrase which is actually affirming something positive . |
| 27 | ‘ Am I interrupting something ? ’ |
| 28 | The teacher knew that Sherman was combining the presentation of the collar and Koko 's picture to communicate something rather specific but was uncertain as to what . |
| 29 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 30 | In other words , a hearer will generally assume that the producer of an utterance wants to communicate something , and has chosen the linguistic context of his utterance with a view to furthering this aim . |