Example sentences of "something 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its maddened strings , echo-chamber vocal and the odd filigree of lonesome country whistling , it is vaguely suggestive of the sixties pop-melodrama of ‘ Wichita Lineman ’ or ‘ Something 's Gotten Hold of My Heart ’ . |
| 2 | My Trial , Cave and the Bad Seeds were staging their own dilapidated equivalents to ‘ By the Time I Get to Phoenix ’ and ‘ Something 's Gotten Hold of My Heart ’ , in the gently obliterating , slowly gathering , morose grandeur of ‘ Sad Waters ’ and ‘ Stranger Than Kindness ’ . |
| 3 | If something 's a life-saver for medical use , then we 'll consider the transgenic animal route . |
| 4 | He said to me , ‘ I just feel it 's all coming right just at the right time ; something 's going to happen this week . ’ |
| 5 | You make everything sound rosy , then you say that something 's the matter . |
| 6 | I cried angrily , ‘ I 'm glad something 's alright . ’ |
| 7 | Some of their later records have produced a few hits but though it is thoughtful , well-made music , something 's missing . |
| 8 | ‘ Something 's going on , sir , and I 'm very much afraid that your son is involved . |
| 9 | ‘ Something 's coming ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If one of them starts behaving out of character , I know that something 's upsetting them . |
| 11 | Something 's better than nothing . ’ |
| 12 | Something 's watching us , Masklin thought . |
| 13 | Something 's on ! |
| 14 | Something 's in the air ! |
| 15 | If something 's going on in your neck of the woods , we want to hear about it . |
| 16 | If something 's going on your neck of the woods , we want to hear about it . |
| 17 | ‘ Ta Dona ’ ( Something 's Burning ) was one such film . |
| 18 | If these modifications are called ‘ sensations ’ , and if it is allowed that different substances can be related causally , then on this view something 's looking white to someone is his having certain sensations which are excited in him by what we would ordinarily say was the object he saw to be white . |
| 19 | On a representative theory of perception , something 's looking white to us consists in our having sensations of white which are excited in us by the object . |
| 20 | I prefer the formulation : are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? |
| 21 | This being so , I can not accept what would be Mill 's reason for giving an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ |
| 22 | In spite of not being able to find support for an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ in what Wittgenstein says , and not accepting what would be Mill 's reason for an affirmative answer , I think an affirmative answer is the right answer . |
| 23 | The first step is to distinguish between two senses of ‘ something 's looking blue ’ . |
| 24 | He may falsely believe that the difference between something 's looking blue and its looking grey can not be merely a perceived-as appearance difference , but that there must be a difference in the presentation appearance . |
| 25 | The second step in my attempt to show that an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ is warranted , is to identify perceived-as appearances with would-be beliefs . |
| 26 | Do n't tell me something 's turned up at this stage to stop Cris getting away ? ’ |
| 27 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 28 | SunSelect Inc chief Carl Ledbetter says the company does n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc : WABI has n't been turned into a product yet but something 's expected shortly and it should be bundled into Solaris this year ; meanwhile , Quorum Software Systems Inc will put Equal , its Macintosh application adaptor on Solaris-on-Sparc , and ship it later this quarter , giving Sun access to Mac versions of Word and Excel . |
| 29 | WABI has n't been productised yet but something 's expected shortly and it should be bundled into Solaris this year . |
| 30 | To which I would answer , first , that the witness is not before the court and has not been cross-examined on the matter , and secondly that just because something 's a ‘ well-known fact ’ this does n't make it a well-known fact about me . |