Example sentences of "something [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 2 | It 's something most of us just dream about . |
| 3 | The pursuit of happiness through developing rewarding emotional ties with other people is something most of us spend a good deal of our lives attempting . |
| 4 | Something most of his patients gave willingly : a confession . |
| 5 | ‘ Something not of this world , clearly . ’ |
| 6 | Then I remembered someone who could : the person could not stand cash , but was maybe prepared to put something up of the value of £500 . |
| 7 | She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping . |
| 8 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 9 | When you get back to your starting point , reward yourself with a cocktail in the Kurhaus , an enormous hotel with a magnificent salon like something out of Death in Venice . |
| 10 | The terrain here was more open , like something out of the Wild West , with deeply eroded crags and ravines . |
| 11 | I was stealing something out of the film : I had captured the stars in the act , and they could n't slip away , off the edge of the screen . |
| 12 | There were bomb sites around and a lot of it looked like something out of the Ealing comedies . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |
| 14 | An artist friend once remarked : ‘ I saw this chap make something out of an ordinary piece of wood — he fashioned it into an exquisite work of art . ’ |
| 15 | It 's like something out of a fairy story . |
| 16 | ‘ Hang on , ’ said Lee , taking something out of his pocket . |
| 17 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 18 | ‘ Poor cow , ’ he 'd said to her about Eleanor , ‘ she thinks she 's going to get something out of me . |
| 19 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 20 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |
| 21 | Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot . |
| 22 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 23 | The stupid part is , recently I noticed a girl at our local swimming pool , painfully emaciated , like something out of a concentration camp , who came every morning to swim lengths , as I do . |
| 24 | Trying for a second time to get something out of Prince Bandar , he was told ‘ You can stop twisting my arm ’ or , in out-of-hearings language , ‘ Fuck it , stop pestering me . ’ |
| 25 | And it was the most intricate interweaving of subjects and half-meanings and innuendos and so forth , and it was like something out of a Pirandello play . |
| 26 | The scene looked like something out of The Munsters with all these Quiet Man caricature Irishmen hanging around . |
| 27 | Caricature has a unique capacity to make her happy : ‘ When I feel frustrated I find that drawing gets something out of my system that nothing else quite does . |
| 28 | At the beginning of his latest resurrection , he was still insisting on wooden rackets , which , flattering though it was to the Cambridge stockists who were able to supply him , made Borg look a little like something out of an Ealing Comedy . |
| 29 | An unusual fairy godmother — the Treasury — came to the rescue with a ¼ p.c. reduction in betting duty which enabled both sides to get something out of the negotiations and allowed the Home Secretary to please everyone , something which home secretaries rarely find an opportunity to do . |
| 30 | For the first couple of hours at least , the world of the BBC and ITN election studios seemed like something out of science fiction — with science and fiction in roughly equal measures . |