Example sentences of "of something [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , a fourth reminder of something spewed out from a computer . |
| 2 | But it makes no sense to say of something imprinted that it is right or wrong . |
| 3 | The objection was that we can be right or wrong in what we judge , but that it makes no sense to talk of something imprinted , an impression or sensation , being right or wrong . |
| 4 | I caught a glimpse of something waving at me just now , but took no notice . |
| 5 | Flesh , female flesh , is to the anorexic an imposition from outside and , in extreme cases , an imposition of something swollen , polluted , dirty . |
| 6 | A sign has meaning , not in virtue of something accompanying it , ‘ thinking ’ , but in virtue of the part it plays in some ‘ form of life ’ . |
| 7 | If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs . |
| 8 | Then I thought of something cheering . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll think of something to celebrate , ’ Harry said , returning her smile . |
| 10 | I was living in a friend 's attic workshop and in need of something to take my mind off my troubles . |
| 11 | Maggie went across to him quickly , trying hard to think of something to take his mind off his sister 's minor crime , but she had n't much chance of that . |
| 12 | Double Gloucester and Red Leicester stand out , but even the common cheddar has a dash of something to take away the paleness . |
| 13 | To take an example from my own professional field , sinology , the first Christian missionaries in China were confronted with the Neo-Confucian cosmology , for which the universe is composed of something called ch'i and ordered by something called li . |
| 14 | In interpreting ideas and behaviour in societies which others might characterize as ‘ peaceful ’ , we suggest abandoning the focus on the lack of something called ‘ aggression ’ ( or violence ) and the construction of theories that attempt to account for this ‘ anomalous ’ absence . |
| 15 | In a most confusing way , an analysis of something called legitimacy first equates legitimacy with opinion , then goes to a restatement of the standard liberal-pluralist description of the structure of power … turns next to a discussion of stability , and finally resolves stability into passivity or acquiescence caused by cognitive confusion , conflict of interest , and inability to translate one 's desires into political decisions due to certain institutional arrangements . |
| 16 | It is often claimed that the government of many European States in the generation or more before the French Revolution is distinguished from earlier practice by the existence of something called ‘ Enlightened Despotism ’ . |
| 17 | By that evening the poor bastard was the designer of something called ‘ Friends of Rolling Stone ’ . ’ |
| 18 | A blind student and his partially-sighted friend are preparing to climb Ben Nevis with the aid of something called a hoople . |
| 19 | At the last minute a sense of something unsaid made her hurry after him . |
| 20 | That was the question that haunted Merrill with a nagging sense of something left unfinished , unsatisfactory … |
| 21 | As he turned he caught a glimpse of something go past the open door , he dashed outside in time to see the figure of the old tramp going towards the slope as if to climb up and away . |
| 22 | He would start by looking at bleach , and then think of something to go with it . |
| 23 | It would pose a particular problem , though , for stressed teachers , who take to the staffroom in great need of something to relax them . |
| 24 | ‘ I should have known it was only because of something to do with work that you were so anxious to be with me . |
| 25 | Was she just covering it up because of something to do with her father , or had she banished it from her mind too ? |
| 26 | The woman nodded , glad of something to do . |
| 27 | She tried to think of something to do , but it was a hot day and she felt very sleepy and stupid . |
| 28 | He tried to think of something to do or say , but it was too late . |
| 29 | ‘ And always the possibility he was killed because of something to do with his time in the secret service . ’ |
| 30 | And if you 're short of something to do , ’ he added , ‘ you could get on a bus and go into the nearest town . |