Example sentences of "something that 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 2 | Does it feel like you created something that 's got to be broken down now ? |
| 3 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 4 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
| 5 | Did you never think , ‘ Here 's something that 's been neglected and so I 'll step in and begin collecting this ’ ? |
| 6 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 7 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 8 | But it 's something that 's happened and you ca n't make it unhappen . |
| 9 | If there is to be a fairly detailed piece of note writing it very often is a fairly near or an exact copy of something that 's already gone before . |
| 10 | No a f a fossil is something that 's been turned to stone in the ground . |
| 11 | And it should n't just something that 's forced . |
| 12 | Erm er I mean er technically it should be something that 's done centrally . |
| 13 | ‘ Something that 's got very little to do with goodness , ’ he grunted . |
| 14 | And there we are putting it into a three or four year old 's hand something that 's erm got that sort of temperature round it . |
| 15 | I 'm a manufacturer , I like to make things , I like to hold something at the end of day and say that 's something that 's been created . |
| 16 | I 've just talked about what happens when a branch member wants to appeal but this is a branch as a whole that 's made a decision at a meeting that it does n't agree with something that 's happened . |
| 17 | Tell me about something , Lewis — something that 's got nothing to do with Mrs Kemp . ’ |
| 18 | Alright , risk and uncertainty is something that 's excluded from most economic models . |
| 19 | just in case some of you do n't have access to rec.sport.soccer , here 's something that 's just arrived : |
| 20 | Something that 's not been tried before . |
| 21 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 22 | Is the attendance at professional conferences something that 's earmarked , or is it just |
| 23 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 24 | Tomorrow the agenda focuses specifically on violence in prisons , something that 's been a problem at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire where prison officers have been the subject of attacks by prisoners in recent months . |
| 25 | Oh good , perhaps he had a funny flavour or something that 's put him off |
| 26 | No it 's funny unle I Mum says is it something that 's just been published this year you know , like if someone just published |
| 27 | but something that 's got five year guarantee on it erm , what did we work out ? |
| 28 | Cos then it 's something that 's done him good and it 's learnt him to talk cos he 's had Thomas erm |
| 29 | but I know there 's a , a LP or something that 's been brought out |
| 30 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |