Example sentences of "something [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the substance of the case against him , there still remains something fundamentally obscurantist in the demonisation of Saddam . |
| 2 | as if it was something only experience could teach , he advised , ‘ If they have a gun or a knife , whatever you 've got , hand it over . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to think it was something only mum came out with . |
| 4 | In the fifties and sixties g-force was something only fighter pilots worried about . |
| 5 | Her chin trembled with anxiety and her big , blue eyes looked far beyond Henry and the bright patterned curtains , at something only children see . |
| 6 | Parents turn up to see their own children doing something so attendance is bound to fall off if the major parts in the service are always taken by the same one or two children . |
| 7 | When you 've finished , you just tear off all your flip charts , and put them up round the room or something so people can |
| 8 | something just trauma ! |
| 9 | It is not something any pilot would wish to happen on take-off , when power is at full thrust and the plane has only begun to fly as it approaches the end of the runway . |
| 10 | Something totally unforeseen could occur to preclude it . |
| 11 | Three hours later , two thousand feet above the Mediterranean , Miranda , alert and exultant , sat next to her instructor at the controls of a trainer plane , an ugly little single-engine Rallye which her instructor described as efficient and forgiving : you could do something wrong m a Rallye without getting immediately punished for it . |
| 12 | Something simultaneously velvet and diamond insinuated itself into her body , slipping easily between the molecules of her skin and coalescing within her . |
| 13 | There must be something though Enid . |
| 14 | Do you want to be near to something e.g. friends , theatres , swimming baths , country parks , bustling town ? |
| 15 | Do you need to be near to something e.g. schools , college , work , family , medical services ? |
| 16 | You have to say something now Rhiannon . |
| 17 | No I want something really sort of |
| 18 | The boy smelt , faintly , of sweat , and also of something else-of poverty , of cheap food , overcrowded lodgings , oil applied to hair that was not quite clean , Arab buses , dust . |
| 19 | waiting for something please God to begin . |
| 20 | First day sales are going well , and that 's something even Victor Meldrew can believe . |
| 21 | The DHSS estimates that it could save something around £30 million . |
| 22 | That is quite a substantial drop from what we have had in the past ; in 1988/89 we get something around £17 million a year . ’ |
| 23 | However , cuts in capital investment and fuel supply problems have reduced capacity growth to something around 3% per year . |
| 24 | Well you must have had something then Sue . |
| 25 | Something there Barry little bit in there look . |
| 26 | And Stewart is thought to have put a reserve price of something over £50,000 . |
| 27 | This creates a feeling of urgency that is cultivated by the gearbox , which has ratios close enough to support a seamless aural attack all the way from standstill until fifth is selected at something over 130mph . |
| 28 | Yields on shorter-dated instruments have fallen , from something over 8% for a three-month Treasury bill to little more than 3% . |
| 29 | In 1715 , in return for writing off two years of annuity payments worth something over £1 million , the government permitted it a fresh share issue which brought its capital up to £10 million , about half of the entire joint-stock capital in the country . |
| 30 | The fact that the country has become a major exporter means a boost to the balance of payments of something over £7 billion per year in 1984 as opposed to a debit of some £4 billion ten years ago . |