Example sentences of "[pron] something of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his complete amazement , Frankie found himself something of a minor celebrity among the children of St Andrew 's . |
| 2 | Thought himself something of a political philosopher . |
| 3 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
| 4 | The 29-year-old has constantly been dogged by controversy and has earned himself something of a rebel tag . |
| 5 | Darwin was himself something of a gourmet , also punctilious in his insistence that ties were obligatory . |
| 6 | Einstein , himself something of a mystic , discovered that time collapses into a ‘ point ’ at the speed of light and was aware that Indian sacred texts — the Tantras — maintain that the soul is a sublime point of the light of consciousness . |
| 7 | During the next few days Stevie was to find himself something of a cult figure . |
| 8 | ‘ Chief Inspector Golding reckons himself something of an expert on poetry , ’ said Miller , with the hint of a sneer . |
| 9 | We shall meet copies in which something of the original beauty seems to live through these disadvantages . |
| 10 | If the Comintern , too , decided that the anti-fascist coalition would be weakened in Vietnam by national independence , itself something of a bourgeois concept , and if the Indochina Communist Party followed suit , no matter how reluctantly , it would at a stroke lose a very significant part of its political appeal . |
| 11 | Besides , Gregory 's preface is in itself something of a rhetorical display , leading to a defence of his use of rustic speech . |
| 12 | Getting British Waterways approval was itself something of an achievement , in view of their reluctance to accept use of towpaths for cycling . |
| 13 | In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' : |
| 14 | Although you will be present throughout the ceremony , I fear the later stages will find you something of a poor audience . ’ |
| 15 | I 've told you something of the plan — ‘ |
| 16 | We should be able to tell you something of the nature of the fastenings used but I doubt if we can say whether a body was involved . |
| 17 | In order to supply a comprehensive background to our experience with a Computerised Personnel Information System ( CPIS ) it is important to tell you something of the Personnel and Data Processing functions at Parker . |
| 18 | Then , with a smile that set all the butterflies off again , ‘ It 's my intention to take you to where the food is really good , and also show you something of the city by night . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Er , well , I 've nowhere to go and it 's causing me something of a problem . ’ |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the question seemed to me something of a nonsense , as it involved the square root of a minus quantity . |
| 21 | Therefore I am informed by the market … which makes me something of a rarity in the business . |
| 22 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 23 | It had to me something of the effect that arises from the turning up of the fresh soil , or of the first welcome breath of Spring . |
| 24 | After asking how I was getting on he told me something of the worries of a Party leader in days when there are no deep political convictions to divide men of good will . |
| 25 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 26 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 27 | These people bring with them something of the evangelist 's zeal . |
| 28 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 29 | Ruth told her something of the situation between herself and her cousins . |
| 30 | The Doc had told her something of the sort as he died . |