Example sentences of "something [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 2 | Each character sees something most abhorrent to himself in the tapestries — his loved ones being defiled and slaughtered , Clerics of his religion being massacred , his people being slain by racial enemies , or similar . |
| 3 | If the answer to these questions is ‘ yes ’ , then we are back to something rather similar to Durkheim 's adaptive function : today 's criminals are in fact helping to usher in the better society of tomorrow . |
| 4 | In medieval times the word ‘ road ’ denoted something rather different to the meaning we give it today . |
| 5 | Nicholson then said something extremely rude to Sam , which made Sam blink . |
| 6 | In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation . |
| 7 | PROGRAMMES on development frequently suffer from overkill , being too long and too much for the well-intentioned , but reluctant to slay with the subject and not turn to something less troubling to the conscience . |
| 8 | He is born with that instinct , for no mother wasp ever taught him , nor does he possess the capacity to learn something so fundamental to his existence . |
| 9 | ‘ Why choose to give something so precious to me ? ’ |
| 10 | Also there was no other way to express her sense of something having arrived from somewhere else , something normally invisible to the eye choosing to put on a human form . |
| 11 | Corporate culture is not something easily amenable to management control or manipulation . |
| 12 | Similarly , down in the Undercroft , the ladies form the Cathedral brought something extra special to the hospitality , as they always do . |
| 13 | You only get on if you 've got something specially interesting to say-about the news or what you 've been doing . ’ |
| 14 | Now I know what you 're thinking , but I mean to drink ; something more appealing to women than the Carlsberg Special Brew brigade , something more interesting than Piesporter Michelsberg . |
| 15 | After a few minutes he replaces it with something more conducive to conversation , the Neville Brothers ' ‘ Yellow Moon ’ . |
| 16 | By the time of Robin Hood the term meant something more akin to pleasing and tranquil — hence Merry England . |
| 17 | This theoretical concern is more readily seen if we consider the series , not as a piece of psychiatry or social psychology , the only social sciences to have considered character thus far , but instead as something more akin to interpretative sociology . |
| 18 | In truth , this one has been something more akin to a slow train coming . |
| 19 | In these circumstances , it might well have modified its present adaptation to ground dwelling and nesting to something more appropriate to the more complex tundra environments that then existed . |
| 20 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 21 | It was something totally new to me . |
| 22 | There were other stated symptoms , too , including singing or chanting odd songs — and what child has not spent time happily singing something totally incomprehensible to a parent ? |
| 23 | Chairman Wayne Calloway tells investors : ‘ Our pink-eyed friends on the cover are the best way we know to symbolise rapid growth — something as natural to us as it is to them . ’ |
| 24 | Well I think she 's done something really awful to Mildred . ’ |
| 25 | Amber did something really nasty to her . |
| 26 | Father 's Day used to mean something really special to Joe . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway , Jeff had now given me something new — something really important to me . |
| 28 | Considerable differences have arisen between those who have tried to show that aggression is a ‘ natural ’ human attribute , having its origins in genetic endowment , or something equally inaccessible to self-intervention and control . |
| 29 | " It 's something quite strange to me , I 'm afraid . |
| 30 | ( 1985 : 687 ) suggest something quite similar to Jespersen — " the infinitive marker to may be viewed as related to the spatial preposition to through metaphorical connection " — and illustrate this by the series : How far this metaphorical connection extends is not specified , but it is significant that both Quirk et al. |