Example sentences of "[vb base] there [be] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know there is something in your past of which you will not speak . |
| 2 | You know there 's something at the back of my mind about that Datsun and I ca n't think what it is . ’ |
| 3 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never been called a carpenter before , ’ he mused , ‘ but I suppose there 's something in the description . |
| 5 | While different kinds of discrimination are not to be conflated , I believe there is something to be learned from homophobia about other kinds . |
| 6 | They feel there is something outside the box of time and space in which they find themselves . |
| 7 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 8 | Yes , but I think there is something to be said for communicating this in a different way . |
| 9 | If I was right in supposing this to be the nub of his argument , then a prior question to be considered was : ‘ Do people in fact suppose themselves to be justified in using the word ‘ hot ’ of material things , like fires , because they think there is something in the fire like what is in them when they feel hot ? ’ |
| 10 | That is , we refer to our sensations as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ because they are the sensations which usually go with our bodies being hot or cold ; and it is not the case that we call external things hot and cold because we think there is something in common between them and our bodily sensations . |
| 11 | The , th th th the o the other thing that is I think , I think there is something in this , is that there was , at least within some sections of the peasantry , erm er a , a kind of erm revolutionary zeal which they were building themselves and they were wanting to go beyond the Party . |
| 12 | Oh , I think there is something in it , yes . |
| 13 | I think there 's something between Moira and he said surely he said why ? |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes I think there 's something at the back of all this that 's so … so bloody bizarre . |
| 15 | I think there 's something like magic that makes gardens grow and things happen . |
| 16 | When somebody pressed his PLAY button , I said , ‘ People think I 'm stupid because I think there 's something in this alien business . |
| 17 | er I think there was something like that . |
| 18 | I see there 's something of Arthur Seaton in him , only in him it 's turned upside down . |
| 19 | So you see there is something for everyone . |
| 20 | Even though the spreadsheet will act like a financial calculator and tell you all about your savings plan there is something to be said for actually seeing your money grow . |