Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 2 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 3 | Since I had to do something during the hours I was supposed to be with Sophie , I joined the local Labour Party . |
| 4 | I had learned something about the protest vote . |
| 5 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 6 | Although different , I wanted to capture something of the sensation of being high up in a tenement block overlooking London . |