Sentence examples similar to something a case of from inspiring English sources

"I usually buy something -- a case of something.

Expect this film to put some backs up (it took some boos at the press screening) because Egoyan has made a teasing and playful puzzler out of something horrifying: a case of child abduction and imprisonment with grim echoes of the Fritzl case.

For the government then it has been something of a case of one step forward, two steps back.

At some stage in history probably the only way anyone could tell whether something was a case of polio was to see whether there was a certain constellation of standard symptoms; other ways (including asking others) asymmetrically depended upon that way.

The cancellation of the tour suggested that something deeper than a case of heat stroke might be afflicting the garage-rock revivalist quartet from Tennessee.

"We need to stop the rot, we need to get something," said Cole. "It's just a case of getting something, even if we have to shut up shop or be ugly".

So is this a case of something for nothing, in which nobody loses?

It's a case of something working just fine in a particular political environment and landing with a clunk in another environment.

I tried that once, for the amount of money I spent on producing mediocre wine I could have bought a case of something considerably more palatable.

Referring to her romance, Ms. Silverman said, "It was a case of something always being in front of your face, yet never really seeing it".

A concluding caveat from the civil servant admits to reservations about what Ms Sturgeon was saying, adding: "It might well be a case of something being lost in translation".