Example sentences of "there [is] something [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But Anne said ‘ Frank , there 's something about you in the paper .
2 There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are .
3 There 's something about her which stopped other people saying ‘ what a nice dress ’ , or ‘ you did well on television yesterday ’ .
4 There 's something about the soap opera form that really does encourage discussion because it spells out and gives you lots of time to consider these moral or personal dilemmas .
5 They are all individuals to me , there 's something about each of them that I love .
6 And if there 's something about him that would be useful if I knew , please will he tell you , to tell me . ’
7 THERE 'S SOMETHING ABOUT A three-piece is n't there .
8 ‘ Well , there 's something about an aged guitar … the tone qualities … every older guitar that I 've played seems to have settled down .
9 She would n't talk like that in the bus , thought Lee ; there 's something about all these naked bodies .
10 I 'm not trying to sound sexy , but there 's something about being on stage , being in front of a camera , that forces you to … ’
11 There 's something about those milestone birthdays that brings out millennial gloom rather than the gaiety in us all .
12 There 's something about the Western Loire that makes you want to savour every moment .
13 There 's something about watching little birds , even dead ones , being torn to shreds by a powerful beak that turns my stomach .
14 There 's something about the way they 're built and their atmosphere that prevents places like Staithes and Whitby slipping overboard from picturesque to grotesque .
15 There 's something about its jizz which makes me think it 's a … ’ is a very handy phrase when only a brief glimpse of the bird has been caught .
16 THERE 'S something about Mondays .
17 There 's something about the place , so — so … ’
18 Erm you can come back to it at the end if you 've done everything else , but there 's something about these that er I think you 're one .
19 There 's something about it that 's delectably … grown-up .
20 Nobody 's saying anything , not to my face anyway , but there 's something about the way they move , and the way conversations change tack when I walk into rooms .
21 There 's something about me
22 There 's something about me
23 In telling his story to Wycliffe , Fowler added , ‘ There 's something about that girl , sir .
24 There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’
25 ‘ I 'm sorry to go through it all again , but there 's something about it that seems odd to me . ’
26 In spite of your excellent state of preservation , Valerie Cass , I 'm afraid there 's something about you that does n't appeal to me .
27 ‘ I vowed to myself not to do this yet , but there 's something about you that melts my sternest resolutions . ’
28 There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin .
29 There 's something about student bars , mostly the smell , which you never get in even the roughest pubs .
30 But then when you do peel them away , whether you can have a potentiality , like the when talked about he talked about either side of his face timeless void that you had to see the limit of it so that you could have erm that that I was in this body and there 's something about this body that I 'm going to go back into the body and then that could differentiate perhaps .
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