Example sentences of "something [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They think ah look there 's a bit of drop of water in , there 's a packet of something let's stick it in and stir it up , they never read a packet to see what it could do . |
| 2 | It is quite sufficient to find something of which the individual concerned is proud — however small and seemingly insignificant that something may appear to be . |
| 3 | erm , something may flash across the , the face you know eyes or whatever , it 's er an aura that there is particular to them or peculiar to them . |
| 4 | Apart from the fact that polite letters of rejection are a matter of common courtesy there is also the more pragmatic point that something may go wrong with the new arrangement — the employee may change his/her mind , become ill , move away unexpectedly , take up another job at the last minute . |
| 5 | Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed . |
| 6 | For all we know something may have happened today but I might not hear for ages |
| 7 | There is always the feeling that , at any moment , something may happen that will lead to a new discovery . |
| 8 | But if he wins , it 's possible that something may happen to me . |
| 9 | The theoretical rigour of the formulation will not however exclude the practical possibility that , as a matter of psychological fact , awareness of something may interfere causally with awareness of something else , so that a local unawareness may be a necessary condition of obeying ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 10 | Something may emerge from it later . |
| 11 | But you never know , something may turn up later in the year . |
| 12 | Now at this st this stage usually the do-gooders who do n't know any better and put and insist that something should go in the mouth and it should n't , you never ever put anything in anybody 's mouth at all . |
| 13 | What is not possible is that something should exist ( temporally extended or not ) of which no coherent notion can be formed . |
| 14 | " Perhaps , " he continued , " perhaps something should burn … " |
| 15 | It is working with IBM and Motorola Inc ( helping IBM with the new PowerPC RISC implementation ) on both hardware and AIX software , so that users of the new version of the Power RISC will all support compatible multi-processing implementations — something should emerge during the first half of next year . |
| 16 | If , however , a Cleric of Good or Law wishes to conduct some ritual cleansing , or calls down a blessing to effect same , then this is fair role-playing and the Cleric should not be grossly penalized ; all the same , something should take an interest ! |
| 17 | Something should happen ! |
| 18 | If something should happen to him , there might be no institution prepared to take over . |
| 19 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 20 | I mean er much more should have been something should have been Aye he 's well worth er within the engineering world at least , well worth looking into his life really . |
| 21 | No response , he was hugging it to his chest , something should have happened . |
| 22 | ‘ Something should have been done immediately given this is near a residential area and there are a lot of children around . |
| 23 | ‘ It does n't matter what they said something should have been done to get people out immediately . |
| 24 | Why something should trouble you , yet you are unable to place it or resolve the matter until months later ? |
| 25 | As Brian Jones dissolved into an amoral Pan-hysterics at the end of this incantatory footage , the equation was made clear : sexual equals social revolution and something must break . |
| 26 | If ye keep trying something must come up . ’ |
| 27 | Something must have scared them . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , something must have happened . |
| 29 | I must say I was rather surprised , and thought something must have happened to him … |
| 30 | At the time I thought something must have been tampered with . |