Example sentences of "something that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's move on to the er to the third question there , just any quick points that anybody wants to make erm not necessarily things you talked about , something that occurs to you know perhaps . |
| 2 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 3 | The real treat of the evening , however , is their version of Bowie 's ‘ She Shook Me Cold ’ where poppy nostalgia is transformed into something that sounds like the soundtrack for a Kenneth Anger movie . |
| 4 | When they hear something that sounds like prey , they move their heads until the frequency is the same in both ears , then keep their heads exactly in position and fly straight towards the sound . |
| 5 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |
| 6 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 7 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |
| 8 | He looked at Alina , wanting to ask her what she 'd done ; but she was standing just out of his reach , and watching him with something that looked like compassion . |
| 9 | She came back later with a shopping bag full of something that looked like boxes . |
| 10 | Through the window , Carl saw a man in a white coat run out from under the plane with something that looked like a grenade in his hand . |
| 11 | A squat kit of chunky glassware , an orange rug of Iranian provenance and recent manufacture , a Spanish guitar and a pair of maracas , two oil paintings ( the first showing puppies and kittens asnooze , the second a nude , ideally rendered ) , an elephant 's foot , something that looked like a microphone stand but turned out to be a Canadian sculpture , a Bengali chess set , a first edition of Little Women , and various other cultural treasures from all over the world . |
| 12 | Mrs Garfitt , fat , voluble and slovenly , paused for breath and gave a perfunctory stir to something that looked like workhouse broth on one of the meatless days . |
| 13 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 14 | She really wanted a cup of tea and she knew perfectly well that Glyn would serve her up something that looked like brown shoe polish . |
| 15 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |
| 16 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
| 17 | Quigley leaned down , picked up the box and , from it , pulled out something that looked like a waffle iron . |
| 18 | Marc gave a getsure of impatience but did n't say anything , and Peter , a glass of something that looked like a triple Scotch in one hand and Sarella 's usual orange juice in the other , moved smoothly forward . |
| 19 | I wanted something that looked like a sea animal . |
| 20 | That was something that stuck in my mind mm . |
| 21 | There was something about music , something that got to her . |
| 22 | In some schools you will be asked to participate with other students in basic class work over a weekend ( as happens at the Bristol Old Vic drama school ) and in some you may find yourself being judged partly by senior students of the school who will be sitting with the faculty panel ( which is something that happens at Drama Centre ) . |
| 23 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 24 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 25 | We can be in danger of saying or feeling that bereavement is something that happens to everyone else , and that ‘ those people ’ need support , but we are perfectly able to manage on our own . |
| 26 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 27 | Growing old is something that happens to all of us . |
| 28 | It seems that young heterosexuals still think the disease is something that happens to others . |
| 29 | And when he talks about a means of grace , he means something that happens to you that can bring you to faith . |
| 30 | It 's just something that happens to me , I do n't know why . |