Example sentences of "be something [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lively and headstrong , considered beautiful in her day ( and there had been something proud about her — the way she held her head ) , she had married well and had lived abroad for almost all my life . |
| 2 | There had been something familiar about him , and Stuart had stopped , uncertain . |
| 3 | There had been something familiar about her , Riven realised . |
| 4 | There must have been something urgent in his voice . |
| 5 | There must have been something wrong with him in his head . |
| 6 | Ever since we married there 's been something wrong with her . ’ |
| 7 | psychiatric hospitals , there must have been something wrong with you . |
| 8 | There had been something predatory about it ; the sort of smile a fox might give the remaining chickens when he left the hen-house . |
| 9 | It 's something for my wife which I ca n't afford cos I 've been off sick so I thought it would be something nice for her . |
| 10 | This principle would be something external to our universe . |
| 11 | Bolinger gives the following set of examples , which do genuinely appear to show qualification of the sense alone , that is , of the property which identifies the entity , rather than of the entity itself : ( 1 ) total stranger lawful heir distant cousin mere kid To these , we might add the cases in ( 2 ) ; notice that the last example would be self-contradictory if the adjective were interpreted as an ordinary attributive : ( 2 ) Brent is a strong Republican the document was a complete blank ( If faced with a claim that we can explain the peculiarity of these adjectives by simply stating that they are adverbial impostors , we may respond that , even supposing that , deep down , there may be something adverbial about them , nonetheless speakers have chosen to use an adjective rather than an adverb , and this adjectival use needs to be described and if possible explained . |
| 12 | And to all Britain 's European allies there seemed to be something incongruous about her ending conscription just as they were trying to expand their conscript forces under American pressure , in order to make the forward defence of Western Europe , which they all desired , a practicable strategy . |
| 13 | Not good enough to fret the days away ; let her use them , enjoy , let there be something rich about her to love and desire . |
| 14 | ‘ It has to be something important to you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It will be something different for them . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | More specifically , if cities were losing jobs , there must be something wrong with them . |
| 18 | Gedanken thought there must be something wrong with her eyesight — the strain of looking down the microscope . |
| 19 | There must be something wrong with me . |
| 20 | " There might be something wrong with me . |
| 21 | I thought that there must be something wrong with me , and I had to do something to prove that I was not just a thing which other people used , of value only because you , Papa , are so enormously rich . |
| 22 | I know there must be something wrong with me |
| 23 | The leader of the clan was Erica , half German and a dedicated do-gooder who always greeted Jane with an unnerving ‘ How are you , Jane ? ’ delivered with a look of such worried concern that Jane felt there ought , or must , be something wrong with her . |
| 24 | There must be something wrong with her . |
| 25 | nothing to be nothing wrong with it than that you did n't tell them and there might be something wrong with it . |
| 26 | Today , there is an attitude which says that if you do n't want an active sex life , there must be something wrong with you . |
| 27 | Then , if you still ca n't imagine a world without money , there must be something wrong with you . |
| 28 | ‘ If you could n't feel that , there would be something wrong with you . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |