Example sentences of "[vb pp] that something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 2 | It is considered that something in the region of 40g daily should be quite sufficient to protect your health in all the ways which have been described , and to make it much easier for you to control your weight in the future . |
| 3 | I should have guessed that something like this was going on . |
| 4 | He would have to be blind not to have noticed that something in Cora-Beth 's manner towards him had changed ; that the looks she sometimes gave him were no longer open and friendly but questioning , as if she expected , or was hoping for , something more . |
| 5 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 6 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 7 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 8 | And they , knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements , well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending . |
| 9 | How would it be proved that something against the rules of war had occurred ? |
| 10 | By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent . |