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

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1 And something through the glass .
2 Just a flimsy nightdress and something on her feet .
3 The cottage is on one side and something on the other .
4 Switch on and check that you have 28V to 30V at the rectifier output , about 9V across capacitor C8 and something at the output terminals .
5 Luckily for Athletico , business is my business and something at which I excel , as many of you will know from the success of my 8-Day Superette in the High Street .
6 She won the BP Portrait Award a couple of years ago — and something at one of the recent Royal Academy summer shows , if I remember correctly . ’
7 They owed something to European social democracy , including the French experience of planning , and something to the planning experience of other parts of the developing world , notably India .
8 On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical .
9 The phenomenon of the bulk of the population surviving infancy and living well into their 70s and 80s is quite new and something to be proud of .
10 Spring , our particular spring , is always late and something to be talked about .
11 in effect , using BSL in further and higher education is still seen by many as part of the ‘ handicap of deafness ’ and something to be overcome in education rather than used .
12 After Johnny disappeared from view around the corner of the house , Cassie wandered disconsolately indoors , realizing that she needed both the bathroom and something to drink.Although she had n't eaten since lunch time , she had no appetite and the thought of food nauseated her .
13 The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with .
14 This remarkable service makes him one of the longest serving employees and something to be proud of .
15 And something for the girls , ’ said Todger grudgingly .
16 In Airdrie open-air market , Mr Smith jostled among ample women shopping for cheap shell-suits and something for tea , cannily thickening his rather clipped Edinburgh accent before plunging into the adoring throng .
17 Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation .
18 Saints coach Mike McClennan enthused : ‘ With McCracken and Connolly in the centres we 'll have something for the ladies and something for the opposition. !
19 And something for dinner — ’
20 This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company .
21 Yeah , but er , it says two hundred and something for the
22 The Emperor has something of the technique of comic and fantastic exaggeration that we associate with Dickens , and something of the manner , too , of Dickens 's reader , Kafka :
23 It was winter , and something of its icy strains entered the young boy 's soul , never to be forgotten .
24 Early on , Bawden had been an admirer of Beardsley and something of Beardsley 's precocity stayed with him : the finesse of the line drawing , the love of the macabre .
25 It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) .
26 After the drama of Pye 's water wall , this is all a bitter disappointment and something of a disgrace .
27 From the porter 's lodge , a long passage stretches before you , off which is an attractive antechamber with water stoups , busts and something of the atmosphere of a grotto .
28 When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite .
29 Past interviews have portrayed him as dour , introverted and something of a depressive , but now it 's obvious he has turned that corner and views the world in a thoroughly positive light .
30 She knew their names — except for the thin man with the small head whom the others never addressed by name — and something of their characters .
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