Example sentences of "something in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improvisation , if used properly , is intended to seek out something in you , and hopefully find an imaginative and emotional response . |
| 2 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 3 | So there must have been something in it to hold my attention for so long . |
| 4 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but not for me , he wrote . |
| 5 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but I can no longer see it . |
| 6 | Something in her face , in her eyes , in the clenched line of her jaw , had made him hurry out of the tent after her . |
| 7 | ‘ He wanted something in Dominions , ’ I heard Ma tell one of her friends . |
| 8 | You and I have something in common you know . ’ |
| 9 | In consequence it is becoming increasingly accepted that not only does the anthropologist have his own social history and subjective stance , but more importantly , that those accounts which ignore this seem to lose something in the telling . |
| 10 | But there was something in the air like hummingbirds poised over exotic blooms or velvet sheened butterflies . |
| 11 | Something in the air . |
| 12 | ‘ That gives us something in common , ’ said Jay . |
| 13 | So there has to be something in the world answering to the general predicate , just as there is something answering to the name . |
| 14 | Because there exists no distinction between causing the experience by acting and the maintenance of the experience requiring action , and so no conception of acting in order to experience a something in the external world . |
| 15 | Perhaps they have lost something in the printing , but the reader will never know . |
| 16 | Or rather , it was not yet that acceptance , something in Raskolnikov remained obdurate . |
| 17 | Then outside the monastery where Bishop Tikhon lives , ‘ he stopped , hastily and anxiously felt something in his side pocket and — smiled ’ . |
| 18 | Any attempt to produce something in reality leads to imperfection . |
| 19 | In the spectrum of contemporary theory , Marxist symptomatic reading has something in common with the deconstructive reading which discovers in the end , not harmony and organic unity , but contradiction and aporia . |
| 20 | It is , nevertheless , interesting that Norris should say , in passing , of Nietzsche ; ‘ there are many competing versions of Nietzsche , none possessing any absolute claim to articulate the ‘ truth' ’ of his text , but all of them — and this is Derrida 's point — made possible by something in the logic , the syntax or the structural resources of his writing . ’ |
| 21 | But the other versions , admiring ones like Hartman 's or Megill 's , and hostile ones like Tallis 's , are all based on something in his writing . |
| 22 | ‘ Literary sensibility ’ is easier to recognize than to define , but it is analogous to having an unusually good ear for music , and has something in common with the creative faculty , even when the critic who possesses it is not an imaginative writer . |
| 23 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got to do something in the close season when there 's no jumping , ’ Elsworth joked , making light of a triumph that clearly thrilled him enormously . |
| 25 | The prayer of Jesus from the heart of the suffering world is not something in the mind , it is his accepted bodily agony and it is by being given the grace to accept our material weakness and pain and finally our death in union with him that we too can pray . |
| 26 | There must have been something in the Florida air in addition to vitamin C. One of the passes from Vinny Testaverde , the Tampa Bay quarterback , went through the hands of his intended receiver right in front of the goal-line , and into the hands of a team-mate , Mark Carrier , for a touchdown . |
| 27 | Last year he took home something in the region of $60 million : this year he will have to find room under the bed for 65 . |
| 28 | As I reached the door the woman smiled and said something in French which I did not understand . |
| 29 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 30 | Hence the elaboration and the perfection of explanations for inflation which have nothing to do with Government is something in which you naturally find politicians of all schools , but particularly of the public expenditure school , joining with good will . |