Example sentences of "something [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 2 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 3 | They are prepared to look at something appreciatively without wanting to buy it . |
| 4 | There was something awry with directors ' reasons for casting him and something unnourishing in the West End audiences ' response , but he smothered the knowledge of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's something most of us just dream about . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Something most of his patients gave willingly : a confession . |
| 9 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |
| 10 | Second , we might see something right about that theory of meaning or something wrong about it , and use this to determine our attitude to foundationalism in general ; thus we might avoid the need to consider all the different varieties one by one . |
| 11 | Well you did something right at er school David . |
| 12 | ‘ I read some of the things Jack said about me , and although it is n't exactly something I re-read every night , I suppose I must have been doing something right for him to make these kind comments . |
| 13 | But we 're trying to , in the course , give engineers and physicists the opportunity to see something right through from a fundamental simple scientific idea , the scientific concept , to its application and to the limitations which are imposed by the scientific theory and by practicalities and economics , and of limitations on existing techniques . |
| 14 | I ca n't see what has agitated Rainbow : it 's something right below the the mirror where I now lodge . |
| 15 | Perhaps we were doing something right after all . |
| 16 | Clean , the front pickup is warm but clear , something perhaps between a Strat and a Gretsch , while the treble unit puts out what might be described as a more cultured version of a PAF . |
| 17 | His medium stature condemned him to character parts — unless a choreographer created something especially for him , as John Cranko did in Prince of the Pagodas and Bonne-Bouche and Kenneth MacMillan in Noctambules . |
| 18 | It 's something entirely on its on . |
| 19 | I should have thought up something better on the way over , but no one could think in that wind . |
| 20 | The culture industry does retain a trace of something better in those features which bring it close to the circus , in the self-justifying and nonsensical skill of riders , acrobats and clowns , in the ‘ defense and justification of physical as against intellectual art ’ ( Wedekind ) . |
| 21 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 22 | I am always hoping for something better from the right hon. Gentlemens although , alas , I rarely get it . |
| 23 | Hoped to have something better by the evening . |
| 24 | If you do find that you have recorded an unsatisfactory shot , cut your losses there and then by reversing back to the beginning so that you can over-record with something better before continuing with the rest of the shoot . |
| 25 | The desire was to learn a lesson from the past and put something together with limited objectives . ’ |
| 26 | So talk to him , see what he wants , then stitch something together for next week . ’ |
| 27 | He 's coming home tomorrow — And we 'll probably be doing something together in the afternoon . |
| 28 | in fact the girl who did the mailing for them did n't do it properly so in fact it 's unlikely to happen erm they asked me because I know that since she 's now leaving the Vice-Principal through network erm and and they were thinking of getting something together like that , I did n't write this that 's not my writing but just let me tell you I do n't write a twenty- four clock , twenty-four hour clock with full stops in it |
| 29 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 30 | ‘ Beauty palls after a while — unless , of course , there 's something deeper beneath the surface to hold the interest , ’ observed Lucenzo laconically . |