Example sentences of "something that [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |
| 2 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 3 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |
| 4 | He looked at Alina , wanting to ask her what she 'd done ; but she was standing just out of his reach , and watching him with something that looked like compassion . |
| 5 | She came back later with a shopping bag full of something that looked like boxes . |
| 6 | Through the window , Carl saw a man in a white coat run out from under the plane with something that looked like a grenade in his hand . |
| 7 | A squat kit of chunky glassware , an orange rug of Iranian provenance and recent manufacture , a Spanish guitar and a pair of maracas , two oil paintings ( the first showing puppies and kittens asnooze , the second a nude , ideally rendered ) , an elephant 's foot , something that looked like a microphone stand but turned out to be a Canadian sculpture , a Bengali chess set , a first edition of Little Women , and various other cultural treasures from all over the world . |
| 8 | Mrs Garfitt , fat , voluble and slovenly , paused for breath and gave a perfunctory stir to something that looked like workhouse broth on one of the meatless days . |
| 9 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 10 | She really wanted a cup of tea and she knew perfectly well that Glyn would serve her up something that looked like brown shoe polish . |
| 11 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |
| 12 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
| 13 | Quigley leaned down , picked up the box and , from it , pulled out something that looked like a waffle iron . |
| 14 | Marc gave a getsure of impatience but did n't say anything , and Peter , a glass of something that looked like a triple Scotch in one hand and Sarella 's usual orange juice in the other , moved smoothly forward . |
| 15 | I wanted something that looked like a sea animal . |
| 16 | That was something that stuck in my mind mm . |
| 17 | There was something about music , something that got to her . |
| 18 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 19 | Then , ‘ Berridge 's ’ , he said , or something that sounded like that . |
| 20 | Taliesin murmured something that sounded like , ‘ All the riches of the world we shall lay at thy feet , ’ and Fribble , who felt that a note of practicality was called for , said , ‘ Be assured that we can pay your fee , ’ and Calatin looked pleased . |
| 21 | He was pointing at Robert and yelling something that sounded like Arabic but turned out to be very emotional English . |
| 22 | ‘ We were in the car and then there was a big bang and something that sounded like an explosion , ’ said Gary , who had hoped to visit friends near Lyonette Road . |
| 23 | She was surprised to see the two Wallingtons sitting opposite each other , about eighteen inches apart , apparently concentrating hard on something that lay between them . |
| 24 | ( 56 ) … the reactionary , for whatever motive , perceives himself to be a part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself … |
| 25 | It was something that had to be said but I could see that Aunt Louise did not like it , or even accept the idea . |
| 26 | They were something that had to be removed , like flammable rubbish , so that the president could be ‘ fireproofed ’ from the fury of his own people when news of the secret contacts with Iran hit the newspapers . |
| 27 | The point to be made , however , is that although this was something that had to be thought out in my head , rather than in the field , it was a very central part of the methodology with which I approached the research . |
| 28 | Something that was eternal was more perfect than something that had to be created . |
| 29 | They simply continued to secure him , coldly and efficiently , as if this was just something that had to be done and as if there was no particular feeling in doing it . |
| 30 | Many working class women did , however , participate in Women 's Cooperative Guild meetings and campaigns , and as Jill Liddington and Jill Norris have shown , large numbers of working class women in Lancashire actively supported the suffrage movement , albeit with ‘ one hand tied behind them ’ , as for all these women any cause was something that had to be fitted in ‘ between dinner and tea ’ . |