Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] something [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 2 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 3 | One said : ‘ Most people in this area always felt there was something a bit odd about him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've always thought there was something a bit sad about grown men waving guns about like that . |
| 5 | There was something a little unsettling about this shifting quality of his — this ability , like a prism , to cast lights of varying colours , all different , all startling , all totally unexpected . |
| 6 | She wanted us to make her a Shaker-style chest , and there was something a bit peculiar about the dimensions , so Luke and I went to Bracken Cottage . |
| 7 | Sir Ralph Howell would have induced confidence , even in schoolmasters ; there was something a bit dodgy about Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 8 | If it had been anyone else the Direktor would also have said that there was something a little pathetic about her . |
| 9 | There was something the doctor could n't move on my chest — what he thought was consumption . |
| 10 | There was something wrong , there was something the matter . |
| 11 | er nothing sunk that there was something the matter |
| 12 | It was something a stranger might do — someone who had n't learned to take the view for granted . |
| 13 | It was something a manager always dreams of . ’ |
| 14 | One corporate lawyer said that he went along with producing false insurance policies without thinking anything of it , ‘ It was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ . |
| 15 | As the corporate lawyer put it , when asked why he went along with producing completely bogus insurance policies as part of the Equity Funding Scandal : ‘ I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 16 | I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 17 | It was something the competitive society logically needed … |
| 18 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |