Example sentences of "[adj] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the other hand as he kissed her this chaste cool kiss , he reached back and shook free something from behind his neck . |
| 2 | Or nineteen and a half something like that . |
| 3 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 4 | An eighteen year old or something like that eighteen seventeen eighteen nineteen year old something like that who would like you know a fiver or tenner . |
| 5 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 6 | I ask myself , is this something of which Jerome could be capable ? |
| 7 | On er , this something of Luxembourg , I du n no , so |
| 8 | Erm , is this something to ? |
| 9 | What it says is that it would be self-contradictory to posit something as a topic , while denying the possibility of referring to this something with the phrase " the same A " . |
| 10 | So how do you actually get across to the public something about this which makes the public love them ? |
| 11 | I was afraid something like this would happen . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was afraid something like this might happen to you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was afraid something like this might happen if I did n't get here first . |
| 14 | English something like that |
| 15 | I think it it was something anyway that we had popular something like that . |
| 16 | The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling . |
| 17 | I think her leaving killed something in him . ’ |
| 18 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 19 | It 's difficult to put into words how sad something like this is . |
| 20 | ‘ Are ye not for a wee something after ? ’ queried Jim , taking his apron off . |
| 21 | Just for a moment there was an uncomfortable something in the air . |
| 22 | This is the complement of many people 's memories of being in school as a pupil : one or two teachers , and a handful of ‘ high spots ’ , stand out against a background that was , for many , at best unmemorable and at worst something to be deliberately forgotten . |
| 23 | Oh no about three something like that , she was n't a baby what I meant |
| 24 | Er I get it for three quid , three something like . |
| 25 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 26 | According to them it was a wonder something like this had not happened before . |
| 27 | ‘ Left something on the seat , ’ he mumbled . |
| 28 | There were those present who later swore that the Old Stager wiped a glistening something from the corner of one eye . |
| 29 | And Miss Lilian will be here to take her a nice little something on a tray if she wakes before we 're back . |
| 30 | Yeah , nothing said as they went out , people just used to put a little something on the plate or whatever . |