Example sentences of "it was something " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although it was something to tell the others at school , secretly I thought he was important enough already . |
| 2 | Henry confessed it was something that had n't crossed his mind before . |
| 3 | It was something I wanted to try out somewhere else . |
| 4 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 5 | ‘ It was something that impressed a lot of people . ’ |
| 6 | No doubt it was something rude ! |
| 7 | Beth thought it was something to do with the heat haze but I know a centaur when I see one . |
| 8 | In fact it was something of a school for bass players . |
| 9 | It was something very rarely seen in Britain , or in other democracies : an emergency government — or , in Hoare 's words , ‘ an emergency Committee of public Safety ’ , formed for a specific purpose , and intended to last for a specific period of time . |
| 10 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 11 | It was something of a turning point for the Prince too . |
| 12 | The Prince had never publicly been so outspoken on such a politically sensitive subject , but it was something he felt he could not ignore . |
| 13 | It was something they had dreamed of many times . |
| 14 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 15 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 16 | It was something that he would have to find out . |
| 17 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 18 | We sometimes use the term ‘ equity ’ , or words corresponding to it , in popular language as if it was something altogether outside law . |
| 19 | It was something I do n't think I 'll ever be able to forget , the twinkling tree and the boot-polished , worried faces everywhere in the darkness . |
| 20 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 21 | Symbolism had been fun in his early days with her , but it was something that had turned very sour in a live-in situation . |
| 22 | It was something that could be felt or pinched . |
| 23 | Dot knew it was something to do with her father . |
| 24 | Even when it was something bad , like the mice-damage in the apple room , or the wasps ' nest in the orchard , or even your husband jumping off a plane and dying , she managed to see the good part of it . |
| 25 | It was something we could barely understand , but I had a growing feeling that without my love the whole project would collapse . |
| 26 | It was something I had never admitted to myself . |
| 27 | I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex . |
| 28 | For bisexual Dana , it was something to be proud of , and he looked down upon my inferior condition . |
| 29 | It was something that had to be said but I could see that Aunt Louise did not like it , or even accept the idea . |
| 30 | To us , the black laver bread looked dreadful , poisonous , but we understood and respected that it was something Welsh , something special . |