Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] something [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes so and I reckon quite frankly cos he 's living on that lay by up the end and I reckon he was hiding , do a runner or something or he ai n't up to something no good ! |
| 2 | Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it . |
| 3 | in bad weather we used to go into what was it they called Long Hope or something and anchor there . |
| 4 | You used to go up with a with a sack or something and gather the chickweed er out of the tattie and neep . |
| 5 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd a , he had some sort of operation or something , it 's not , but at Debbie 's wedding , Andrew were n't there because he some operation on his jaw or something that , ca n't remember now what it , what he 'd had done were having his jaw bone |
| 7 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 8 | The thing to do is is to sort of er plot to overthrow parliament or something and see if there 's any reaction ! |
| 9 | and , and kind of erm some time one afternoon or something and kind of go through these things |
| 10 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 11 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 12 | Well they do n't get that in here unless you 're higher up the scale like a tenter or something that 's , things like that . |
| 13 | What is your earliest memory of a story where something or somebody changed ? |
| 14 | the truth should be er help for me now , give me , give me a support or something and from her I could go about two weeks not hearing at all , no phone call , nothing . |
| 15 | they were , they were doing a play or something and it , it mentioned about er , erm , what did it mention ? , it was a bit rude any way this play and it oh it was on about an erection or something and Geoffrey said his trousers his new trousers were sticking out a bit peculiar |
| 16 | Yeah you 've got ta almost ask say you keep getting an accent erm Oh I do n't know say Brummie accent or something that people do n't really think sounds very nice . |
| 17 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 18 | There 's supposed to be a white horse that goes through the square at and er it er supposed to pay this horseman or something but I do n't really ken much about it . |
| 19 | and erm then some of the people like er er in London started out erm making shades or er fittings which were erm quite at home in the house er or in the office and erm these were , well that is one design of them the wall back is to match you see , er but you could equally er , put those into erm hotel bedroom or something or er hotel lounge somewhere there , erm or you can get them large with more lamps in them I think and all sorts of new designs were coming out mainly in , in plastic er and erm |
| 20 | all they 're doing is erm , where people do it on a Saturday they , they wo n't do their , go football or something and then go on a Sunday , now I think it 's nice to have a , a day when nothing happens . |
| 21 | But there 's a chance that while he was searching , he found some letters or a photograph or something that tied you in with Mahoney . |
| 22 | Yeah cos erm these I find these lovely for a tea or something when I want to just |
| 23 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 24 | He 's always doing that , he 's reading or drawing or something and he 's laughing to himself . |
| 25 | Soup mix or something or other . |
| 26 | It turns out that if you 're gon na give a talk or something and it 's a talk that 's well rehearsed and well known , you give it better when there 's a lot of people in a passive audience than when there 's one or two . |
| 27 | listen to The Jam I might want to go and listen to fucking bit of heavy rock or something or bit of pop or something you know ? |
| 28 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 29 | It was made more so by the billing he got as if it was the Second Coming or something and he was going to be a wonder player . |
| 30 | Yet there is that worm in the apple , the niggling fear that something that good , ca n't be all that good . |