Example sentences of "[pron] [be] something [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 2 | He was one of Glasgow 's two great architects but his work has been badly neglected , which is something the city should be ashamed of . |
| 3 | Middle-class notions of respectability enable policemen and women ‘ to tell just by looking at someone whether there 's something a bit suspicious about them ’ and ‘ to be able to recognize a decent member of the public ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 20 ) . |
| 4 | I 'm interested you talk about ‘ stamping of feet ’ , because this fantasy of offing Mrs Thatcher , as though this would somehow solve everything , as if the ‘ evil ’ in this country were n't a lot more structural and entrenched — well , there 's something a bit childish and petulant about it . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's something a bit seedy about this side of the canteen , I 'm afraid , ’ she began , lighting a cigarette . |
| 6 | " There 's something the matter with his head , " he said . |
| 7 | There 's something the matter with the screen |
| 8 | On its you know there 's something the matter with it |
| 9 | Perhaps there 's something the police have missed . ’ |
| 10 | Erm so it 's in terms of erm er , careful logical field work erm there 's not a great deal of information , but there 's , th , there have been early anatomical historical er investigations and there is something a literature erm dating from early in the nineteenth century which and it shows you the bloke who also resolves to , to , to make comparisons with what she found . |
| 11 | There is something the men do not see . |
| 12 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 13 | " There is something the matter with it , " she told her maid , her eyes swimming with tears again . |
| 14 | One said : ‘ Most people in this area always felt there was something a bit odd about him . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've always thought there was something a bit sad about grown men waving guns about like that . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sir Ralph Howell would have induced confidence , even in schoolmasters ; there was something a bit dodgy about Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 18 | There was something wrong , there was something the matter . |
| 19 | er nothing sunk that there was something the matter |
| 20 | There was something the doctor could n't move on my chest — what he thought was consumption . |
| 21 | All the doctors are achieving with their uncontrollable itch to boss , patronise and distribute public money is to establish an idiotic certainty in our morally confused age that condoms ought to be free because they are something the government wants us to use . |
| 22 | It 's something a girl dreams she 'll one day do with the man she loves . |
| 23 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 24 | It 's something a manager should n't do . |
| 25 | you can only learn I think from your , from your experience and yet it 's something every body has to go through |
| 26 | It is an important matter because clearly if er if the matter er if the suspicion er turns out to have been reasonable but not to bear t further examination then an accountant er could find themselves in great difficulty er both with regard to pecuniary difficulty and also professional difficulty and it 's something the minister needs to look at . |
| 27 | We er er erm in this country have a very bitter experience with B C C I , it was n't just the knock it took to the regulatory system but I need hardly remind this house there are thousands of people who lost everything they had and that and there are many people who lost everything they had and feel that this house has not taken their concern seriously and it 's something the minister must show that the government is willing to pursue these matters , even if it means introducing primary legislation . |
| 28 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |
| 29 | It 's something the Indians who live in the forest are powerless to stop : |
| 30 | A spokesman for Red Adair said that : " this is absolutely the worst-case scenario of what the Iraqis could do — it 's something the world has never seen before " . |