Example sentences of "something [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without knowing why , Ruth had always felt there was something unfinished about it . |
| 2 | It was interestingly designed , true enough , a charming affair of pink stucco backing against the hill , and with its own private path snaking towards the sea , but there was still something unfinished about it . |
| 3 | Her mother so much wanted her to be doing something prestigious , Caro thought bitterly , something she could boast about to her woolshop cronies , after all that dreadful ‘ grubbing about in the park ’ . |
| 4 | When cooking with the children we want to finish with something eatable , so we are likely to add the liquid carefully ourselves , but we could let children experiment with the play-dough and if they make the first lot too soggy , more flour and salt can be added without much trouble until they make a ‘ workable ’ dough , and there can be plenty of conversation about too much , too little , a little more , a lot more and enough . |
| 5 | Of course , in order to have something literal and precise in the desired sense , care must be taken to understand the given conception exactly as it is , without addition . |
| 6 | He said this was something private . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's — it 's just something private , ’ she said at last . |
| 8 | Killing is something private between me and what I feel . |
| 9 | It might be something private Wayne |
| 10 | Something ineradicable happens and assumptions are made about kindness or fidelity — based on how often the ratchet has snapped . |
| 11 | Something inherent in maleness necessitates its expression in systems of oppressive hierarchies . |
| 12 | This learned advertisement suggests that , just like in the Bertillon system , when you get a lot of small pieces of evidence grouped together , it can add up to be something prodigious in the way of proof . |
| 13 | Dr Clare does not address any of these problems directly , but tells us a lot about his childhood , which seems to have been quite nice , unless he is trying to hide something shameful . |
| 14 | The first step is to start talking about stress , not as something shameful but as an interesting , understandable and , up to a point , an inevitable accompaniment to high levels of demand and uncertainty . |
| 15 | This has aroused the criticism of ‘ nationalist patriots ’ , who see something shameful in the admittance of Coca-Cola to the Hermitage . |
| 16 | she immediately undercuts herself : ( " And even if you say something shameful to me I shall blame you in no way at all " ) |
| 17 | ‘ Some climbers and walkers used to feel there was something shameful about retreating but that 's just not true — it is often the sensible thing to do . ’ |
| 18 | Glancing up at his face , Cassie saw his expression change , his face darkening and hardening as his mounting excitement and desire seemed to quicken into something uncontainable , threatening , like the tide of an incoming sea , to engulf them both . |
| 19 | Montreal Central eventually served the CPR express lines as well as the CNR , but , compared with Toronto or Cincinnati Union , there was something half-hearted about it , despite the trumpetings with which it was received during the war . |
| 20 | He did something technical on it , and suddenly his attention seemed to revert entirely to his exhibition . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw something — something unbelievable . |
| 22 | As Clune puts it : ‘ Being required to do anything and especially being required to do something specific can not match the effectiveness of internally motivated , adaptive behaviour directed at the same underlying end . ’ |
| 23 | But this diversity meant something specific : protection against the interruptions in supply and the price shocks which the miners and the oil sheikhs had most recently provided . |
| 24 | This could give staff and governors something specific to aim for and a way of measuring success . |
| 25 | Billy : ‘ For the first LP ( Gish ) , I was really trying to express more … like a feeling and not so much something specific . |
| 26 | Explanation : That which you would like to achieve by helping the family — it could be something specific like improving Amy 's weight or it could be something more general such as changing attitudes . |
| 27 | SMCC ( not Sun Labs ) is in fact revamping NFS and will be enhancing cache filing and adding multi-threading but it is a generic revision not something specific for its anticipated giant multi-processor Sun Dragon . |
| 28 | They should encourage the client to commit him/herself to something specific , i.e. , ‘ I 'd like to stop having panic attacks ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to be able to catch the train up to London ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to understand and cope more effectively with my anxiety symptoms ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to be more relaxed giving presentations at work ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ When you check those files there 's something specific you should look for . |
| 30 | The fact that they broke in but did n't take anything , and also that they were obviously professionals , makes me think they were looking for something specific . |