Example sentences of "[conj] something [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Why do n't you , ’ she said in the ultra-kind voice she reserved for very recalcitrant children , ‘ get out , put some branches or stones or something under the wheels , then start pushing ?
2 Lunch is often a sandwich or something on toast ( like cheese or eggs ) or a pie or pasty .
3 It 's not to late to book I think it says something about surcharge after sixth of March or something on the form does n't it ?
4 Sometimes I managed to block them out for a while , then something would happen to trigger them back — a comment or something on TV .
5 Won a football pool or something on Ernie ? ’ asked Sister Dew .
6 They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs .
7 Go put a poultice or something on Simon 's eye before he uses up all the raw meat in the kitchen . ’
8 One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle .
9 It 's said to last for days even this great high that they get when they jump off and leap off these bridges or something on a bit of elastic .
10 Now I 'm not gon na bother to put the N sort of equals one to N equals N or something on the top yeah ?
11 Jack immediately commandeered two of the men to find a table and some pillows or something on which to rest the child 's body , and with the help of a neighbour he managed to prise the terrified and exhausted mother away from her son .
12 There 's a bit of fluff or something on there .
13 here , if you want , there , that 'll do , give it a good ru , I think that 's the right one , give it a rub with er , oh no it is n't , hang on , that 's got or something on it
14 Oh yes well apparently they normally have a sort of rhythm and blues or something on a , on a Thursday .
15 Did n't you get a l a chewy lolly or something on a stick ?
16 So if you wan na put like a hundred or something on
17 So some how or other you 've got put little bit of oil or something on it .
18 but these were are all crumped and I do n't want clumsy ones cos you feel as though you 've got Doctor Marten 's or something on you know
19 So what I 'm gon na do , is I 'm going go , give you a list of things that need to go into your diary every week , and I 'll just put the list up , and you perhaps write it under Sunday or something on there , because I 'm going to work on a five day week Monday to Friday .
20 Well mum can draw a state pension when she 's sixty or something on what I pay in into the scheme so you
21 It 's like , got scrapings out of it and everything and and it 's in this little lovely container or something down my neck !
22 So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time …
23 Thus a more natural way of asserting the existence of men would be by saying " Some living creatures are men " , or something along these lines ; employing , that is , a proposition of the " Some 5 are P " type .
24 For an hour or two we trudged about trying to find something more ( or something at all ) to see , and even photograph .
25 His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison .
26 By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog .
27 The Banker is a riverside pub , converted from a warehouse or something at the end of Cousin Lane , a cul-de-sac tucked under the armpit of Cannon Street station .
28 He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know .
29 I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top
30 And then there 's all this , yeah green or something at the back .
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