Example sentences of "[vb -s] something to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , when the Law deems something to be O.K. , chances are it stops being much fun . |
| 2 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 3 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 4 | Do you not think that I mean the people who were saying keep them there they 're saying it adds something to what 's in the city centre do you not agree ? |
| 5 | The reason why Mansell if you like , can drive a similar car to some other man and make it go that much faster , is he adds something to it , to the mixture . |
| 6 | he wants something to , he wants something |
| 7 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 8 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 9 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 10 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 11 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 12 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 14 | The secret of Proudfoot 's success is hard to encapsulate but it owes something to its leadership in productivity consultancy , advice which is likely to have enduring appeal when times are hard . |
| 15 | You could argue that the most interesting directors in mainstream Hollywood today are people like David Lynch , Joe Dante and others : tele-visionaries whose aesthetic owes something to the disjunctions of the small screen . |
| 16 | Jean Packman concludes by showing that new policy embodied in future legislation owes something to child care research studies in recent years . |
| 17 | Their refusal owes something to a distaste for addiction in itself . |
| 18 | Their certainty owes something to a sense of betrayal . |
| 19 | The author 's failure to capture Brown 's dynamism probably owes something to his apparent lack of interest in the substance of issues . |
| 20 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 21 | Some of Faraday 's experimental results were independently achieved , sometimes before him , by Joseph Henry in the USA , and by William Sturgeon in Manchester , for example ; and his theory of point atoms owes something to Newton , and more to Roger Boscovich ( an eighteenth-century Jesuit ) and to Joseph Priestley . |
| 22 | He says something to Odd-Knut who turns to Tony . |
| 23 | One time the doctor puts on rubber gloves and says something to Mum , and she goes out , leaving me sitting on the high bed , dangling my legs . |
| 24 | We suppose that when somebody says something to us , it is meant to be informative , has some warrant in fact and is not a deliberate obfuscation or falsehood ( for further detail and discussion see Grice 1975 ; Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 25 | At his first approach to man-machine conversation , the system analyst often tends to think of the man as originating each part : the man says something to the computer and the computer replies . |
| 26 | Something in me says something to something in them . |
| 27 | Something in them says something to something in me . |
| 28 | One young married points at Babur and says something to the Gazza clone with her . |
| 29 | Rosa : That 's if your patroa says something to you that really ticks you off , but because she 's your boss you just go away without saying anything . |
| 30 | You know , if somebody says something to you , aargh , you blow up , and you know . |