Example sentences of "[verb] [ex0] [modal v] [be] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know there must be something wrong with me |
| 2 | So when there was a lead coffin there you 'd think there 'd be something else . |
| 3 | as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | Book there 'll be something . |
| 5 | No but I mean there must be something electrical , a fault , an electrical fault of something . |
| 6 | The smoke rising from the five chimneys of Auschwitz-Birkenau is a downer , although he thinks there may be something in my idea of complementary smoke rising from the savannah . |
| 7 | The water seemed peaceful and inviting and it was hard to believe there might be something lurking beneath its surface . |
| 8 | People in the tiny Russell 's Water Community believe there may be something in that . |
| 9 | Then , at that point I decided there must be something else out there , and what it turned out to be was music from other countries . |
| 10 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 12 | It was a bizarre kind of inconsistency , and that made it more difficult to make the decision to join Fleetwood Mac , because we thought there might be something going on here . |
| 13 | I thought there might be something worth finding . ’ |
| 14 | George thought there might be something in this . |
| 15 | I did n't see how I was going to live with the memory of him as it was ; I thought there must be something we could do , just something ; even one friendly lunch together might help . |
| 16 | Well I thought there must be something , because I thought oh , she must have had to go in early with her not coming in . |
| 17 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 18 | the people of the press thought there could be something in it for them , if they , if they kept quiet . |
| 19 | I think there might be something at home nan . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ However , I think there must be something between the pair we do n't know about . |
| 21 | Cos he said there 'd be something else . |
| 22 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 23 | I was just thinking there might be something to that tale Ralf told last night , if the monks need an escort to move their flocks . ’ |
| 24 | In the 1760s the Lake District with its rugged and dramatic scenery began to be all the rage with artists of all sorts , and in their wake , as usual , the dilettanti rich followed limply behind , thinking there must be something in this search for the sublime through unadulterated nature . |
| 25 | Yet Mrs Thatcher 's later experiences , most notably during the poll tax rebellions , suggested there might be something in the Pym theory of majorities . |
| 26 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |