Example sentences of "[verb] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Unix System Labs , which has a good server story but may lack something on the desktop end like applications , is reportedly trying to get Quorum interested in Destiny . |
| 2 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 3 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 4 | They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude . |
| 5 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 6 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 7 | At this point , some hawk-eyed philosopher ( hawks have very acute eyes — you could n't make a hawk 's eye by throwing lenses and light-sensitive cells together at random ) will start mumbling something about a circular argument . |
| 8 | However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task . |
| 9 | And then I wonder if another means of acquiring something of a scientific education might not be found . |
| 10 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 11 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |
| 12 | He turned and shouted something to the mercer below . |
| 13 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 14 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 15 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 16 | One of them , a handsome man scarcely more than an adolescent , shouted something in a high voice . |
| 17 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 18 | [ Op paras ] I enclose with this letter , the following : ( a ) a leaflet explaining the position regarding costs and the funding of your claim ; ( b ) a leaflet explaining your entitlement to Legal Aid ; ( c ) a leaflet explaining entitlements to welfare benefits ; ( d ) a brochure briefly explaining what happens next in Personal Injury cases ; ( e ) a short brochure explaining something about the Firm 's other services . |
| 19 | The greengrocer spoke with exaggerated patience as though explaining something to a backward child . |
| 20 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 21 | We 'd have seen if one of us had tipped something into the soup . ’ |
| 22 | I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ? |
| 23 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 24 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 25 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 26 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 27 | The state now provided something of a protective safety net from the cradle to the grave . |
| 28 | The medium of world commerce was often the sterling bill of exchange , which provided something like an international currency . |
| 29 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 30 | You know I mean I 'll have to find something like a |