Example sentences of "[conj] something about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or something about going to the library ? |
| 2 | He said well , erm , or something about reunions and told her . |
| 3 | Was it in America or something about it ? |
| 4 | Although I 'm starting to cope with the idea that the rape was n't my fault , I ca n't get rid of the feeling that something about my appearance singled me out . |
| 5 | Specifically it suggests that something about how we respond , react to or construe the stressful situation has a lot to do with how stressed we feel , and how we feel stressed . |
| 6 | One is that something about the dream itself ( its illogicality perhaps ) makes it difficult to remember , and the other that there is something about the physiological state in which we find ourselves when first woken up that makes remembering difficult . |
| 7 | Your reader should be left only with the feeling that something about life has been made clear . |
| 8 | Is it Friend ? thought Chesarynth , sure that something about him would give himself away . |
| 9 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're saying that something about me niggles at you ? ’ |
| 11 | From his conversation with Eddie , he works out that something about his relationship with Catherine is not quite as purely ‘ parental ’ as it might be . |
| 12 | And something about the tone of Churchill 's letter displeased Ramsey . |
| 13 | And something about his voice made Philip think perhaps it was n't to be a parrot after all . |
| 14 | And something about how she did not speak the French of France because she was from Martinique , and how she was n't rich and she was n't chic . |
| 15 | It 's all very complicated and there 's a lot of stuff about original ‘ round ’ core as opposed to the more modern ‘ hex ’ core , and something about wrap wire being able to move around a round core , and the wrap stretching on tuning and just the core moving through the nut , and the smaller space available for gunk to gather , and a heck of a lot more besides . |
| 16 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew what she looked like , her lifestyle and something about her personality . |
| 18 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
| 19 | Raffaella described her injuries in indignant Italian , ticking each one off on her fingers , but Julia could understand only something about cracked ribs and something about her eyes . |
| 20 | There 's something about , I do n't know whether you 've heard about it , about this education and training for twenty first century , and something about they 're not funding leisure classes the government or something . |
| 21 | There 's so much to do and something about money , that 's about as much as I know . |
| 22 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 23 | Write to the Letters page if something about the industry really winds you up . |
| 24 | A few paces below where the body lay , and a yard or so into the bushes , there was a patch of free stones , loosely overgrown with grass and lichen , and to all appearance undisturbed for a year or more ; until something about the clear outlining of the upper stone made him look closer . |
| 25 | But something about Mr Gummer 's face — like the look of insufferable smugness - should have warned Dr Clark that it was all about to go horribly wrong for him . |
| 26 | She opened her mouth to argue further , being plainly in the mood to announce she was leaving her job rather than allow any arrangement to succeed , but something about McLeish 's expression checked her and she agreed meekly . |
| 27 | ‘ But something about that evidence bothers you . ’ |
| 28 | Her dress was in the high-waisted Empire style worn by almost all young women nowadays , but something about it seemed to Karelius , far from expert though he was , vaguely wrong . |
| 29 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 30 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |