Example sentences of "[to-vb] something [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a tough time to launch something new . ’ |
| 2 | someone invites you to a party or to try something new/different |
| 3 | The Association for Community Reform Now ( ACORN ) , a national non-profit housing group , is pressing the agency to try something new — like hiring them . |
| 4 | So when Kylie stepped out of Ramsay Street to try something new , everyone went with her . |
| 5 | Why this constant need to change , to try something new , to search for paradise ? |
| 6 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 7 | Briefly summarised , our scheme is likely to be attractive to those researchers who have reached a stage in their careers , either young post docs or those of more mature years , where they want to try something new or unconventional . |
| 8 | Leaving aside Scafell ( surely the best mountain crag south of the border ) the wild west of Cumbria holds many surprises for those willing to try something new . |
| 9 | To try something new . |
| 10 | Its principal aim , according to Mellor is that there should be ‘ something for everyone in all parts of the country , and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons ’ . |
| 11 | That , given co-operation and tact , there is a fund of goodwill in the bureaucracy , people with open minds who are prepared to try something new . |
| 12 | The aim is that there should be something for everybody in all parts of the country and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons . ’ |
| 13 | We want people to try something new and feel good about their achievements ! |
| 14 | A lifelong love of fashions means I have not only the nerve to try something original , but the experience to put my own version of style together . |
| 15 | If you find yourself offered a standard layout of chairs , do n't be afraid to try something different . |
| 16 | I know that buying additional tackle gives you the opportunity to try something different , but it is not a good idea . |
| 17 | Furthermore , their ascendancy accompanied the severest phase of the recession , which gave them the added incentive to try something different as some of their own areas were among the hardest hit . |
| 18 | I 'm a 14 year-old , who usually breeds livebearers , but wanted to try something different . |
| 19 | But you said you wanted to try something different ! |
| 20 | Here we have the room to try something different . |
| 21 | ‘ Beef cattle were not my scene , so I decided to try something different , ’ says this 28-year-old one-game-a-month golfer . |
| 22 | if I 'm going out for a meal I prefer to try something different , you can have a steak at home , I mean |
| 23 | I 'll have to try something different . |
| 24 | So the simple answer to our question is that God wants us to find something useful in this passage from His word so that we — people who serve God — or , in the other translations , men and women of God — may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind of good deed . |
| 25 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 26 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's beginning to sound my type , ’ said Daphne as she rummaged around among her clothes to find something suitable . |
| 28 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 29 | That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say . |
| 30 | I 'll have to find something nice for a wedding present . ’ |