Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 2 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 3 | Bobby Charlton said of him something like , ’ People ask you how good was he ? and then when you tell them they do n't believe you , but yes , he was that good . ’ |
| 4 | On the side of mine something like that . |
| 5 | The place took on a magical quality for Lewis , who had towards it something of that feeling of the Grand Meaulnes for his lost domain . |
| 6 | These people bring with them something of the evangelist 's zeal . |
| 7 | You should have bought an American dog with you something like a |
| 8 | He brought with him something of a reputation as a centre-half , but his Palace career , spread over five seasons , was spent largely as a full-back . |
| 9 | Thus did his subjects ingest and incorporate into themselves something of their dead ruler 's virtue and power . |
| 10 | Many of you support them faithfully in prayer and I know we will all benefit from their challenging ministry as they share with us something of their work in Turkey . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We shall meet copies in which something of the original beauty seems to live through these disadvantages . |
| 13 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 14 | Besides , Gregory 's preface is in itself something of a rhetorical display , leading to a defence of his use of rustic speech . |
| 15 | 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' : |
| 16 | North Africa had brought out in him something of the stern Roman . |
| 17 | Perhaps I see in him something of the son I would like to have had , but never did . |
| 18 | It shares many features with other stories found among many peoples : a spirit or evil demon makes a sudden attack on a traveller at night ; the traveller is quite unprepared , and the demon means to kill him ; nevertheless , in the life and death struggle that ensues the traveller manages to get the upper hand , and before the dawn comes and robs the demon of its power , he extorts from it something of its supernatural strength . |
| 19 | The still joy of the mind in its state of non thought has in it something beyond the rational and it defies explanation . |
| 20 | Whatever its original purpose may have been , as with any ruin , we must hack from it the thick vegetation which threatens to cut it off from us : to find in it something of significance for ourselves . |
| 21 | Vision has in it something of the ‘ himma ’ of the sufis . |
| 22 | Instead , it is hospitalised in a museum , to be visited by the public , who pretend to relate to the work as if they recognised in it something of eternal value . |
| 23 | She kissed her husband dutifully , and for a moment Riven saw her and Ratagan exchange a look which had in it something of despair . |
| 24 | His adaptation of Twomey 's words and manner had in it something like the meticulous grace of his dancing to his mother 's music . |
| 25 | Yes , or big bank or something , who 'll invests in our something like that . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the question seemed to me something of a nonsense , as it involved the square root of a minus quantity . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Erm I , I feel as if you 're gon na to say to me something like erm could do better , |
| 29 | They were thought to bring good luck to the wearer by extending to him something of the protective power of a Roman Emperor . |
| 30 | He would , I think , have found Mrs Lavender 's attitude to him something of a challenge and it probably amused him to manipulate Mrs Kettle into defying her and then to observe her reactions . |