Example sentences of "something [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if dad 's going to or something or drove something down |
| 2 | Using the carrot and the stick : we can get power through our ability to reward and punish others , to give them something or to take it away . |
| 3 | Equally , he was never sure if he had missed something or escaped it . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when Lennie says something or does something wrong , George gets very annoyed and lets something slip without thinking . |
| 5 | Then she began a curious movement , rubbing her hand over her face , as though feeling for something or wanting something . |
| 6 | I think you can ask the council to take it away or something or take it to the dump |
| 7 | What happens if you lift something or pull something ? |
| 8 | the teachers are n't allowed to dictate the children , if they want erm to do something or make something they have to make up a plan of what they 're gon na do first |
| 9 | ‘ I was going to have a coffee at the Greek cake shop , ’ Constance went on , ‘ but just as I was going in one of those middle-class , middle-aged ladies with a smile on her face was coming out , and whenever I see one of them I think she 's going to try and sell me a poppy or something or tell me Jesus loves me . |
| 10 | If you want to ask me something or tell me about something you put your hand up and wait for me to ask you . |
| 11 | It deconstructs the language of communication , representation , or expression ( when the individual or collective subject may have the illusion that he is imitating something or expressing himself ) and reconstructs another language , voluminous , having neither bottom nor surface … |
| 12 | You only have to tell him something or show him something once . |
| 13 | You only have to tell him something or show him something once . |
| 14 | Design involves doing something or making something happen . |
| 15 | Readers will work hard at a text if they need to know something about their favourite football player or team , if they want to know about their favourite singer or group , if they want information for a project that really interests them , or if they need information a make something or improve their performance in some way . |
| 16 | ‘ We think Brian might have seen something or found something out that someone was afraid he would come home and tell us , ’ said Mr McDermott . |
| 17 | But no I mean as I say some of the content was was was very interesting and er the concept is er well it 's something that excites me . |
| 18 | Tell me something that cheered you recently , Mr Bodenland . |
| 19 | It is often impossible to say what moves you in a poem ; somehow in this poem there is something that touches my heart and links me in sympathy to this Bolivian poet whom I shall never meet . |
| 20 | I always name the team equal after a number of rounds and finish with something that involves everyone . |
| 21 | Well you 've just you 've just er allow you 've just said something that allows me er to bring in er the way in which we approach advertising sales er Robert because er all of us who 've been in tra traditional sales , and I 'm I 'm just er that was my background as well er in addition to recruitment , er we are not used to giving everything over the phone before we go to see the people . |
| 22 | " He said something that upset you . " |
| 23 | As once you have dealt with history , you have to put in place something that keeps it up to date , without too much labour and without erm , a major hole there where things fall into the middle cover and come out . |
| 24 | He particularly delights in riding near the front of the field so that he can watch the hounds at work — something that fascinates him . |
| 25 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 26 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 27 | What he seemed to see was something else , something that wore her like a shell , and it was walking towards him . |
| 28 | He had felt that he was in the presence of something that wished him harm ; some malign , unseen enemy who wanted to scare him into leaving . |
| 29 | Together they cleared the table , and as they moved about the kitchen Lucy thought of her aunt , and in doing so she remembered something that caused her to turn to Silas . |
| 30 | Ca n't you see that if you were to say or do something that caused my father , for example , to die when he was still a little boy , then I should never get round to being born , should I ? ’ |