Example sentences of "something [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the third question , ? ? add vocational to training events and add management training as something also/specifically to mention |
| 2 | In some respects , we still have to do something right to get a point against West Ham . |
| 3 | Would you like to do something locally to make a visible improvement ? |
| 4 | You spend years learning something only to forget what you 've learned . |
| 5 | Not those kind of relaxants but something just to relieve the tension and make her feel calmer . |
| 6 | It is easy to inject a mouse to stimulate its B cells , but injecting a human with something just to create monoclonal antibodies is another matter . |
| 7 | So the only thing you 've got is something just to wrap round . |
| 8 | I know and I feel sick but it 's something just to feel this certain about anything again . |
| 9 | I think possibly it needs something just to break up this , sort of , the lines , you just got those bands of waves going across there . |
| 10 | In version ( ii ) , on the other hand , the word ‘ seen ’ is given the greatest prominence , and it is likely to sound as though the speaker has some reservation , or has something further to say : A : Have you seen my father yet ? |
| 11 | It 's hard to imagine there will be anything more brilliantly conceived and more compellingly presented , unless there 's something still to come , which will then have to be the book of the decade . |
| 12 | What so you 've got to think of something now to say ? |
| 13 | Not that it meant very much , because when you thought about it it was n't something really to celebrate but today , June 28th , was his birthday . |
| 14 | Well now with promotion and relegation , they 've got something to fight for and those at the bottom of the top league have got something really to fight for to save going down . |
| 15 | Be active in your thoughts to counter the negative tendency , and if you think of rest and relaxation as recharging , you will see that there is something here to achieve ; it is not just a letting go . |
| 16 | He yearned for something hard to hold , but there was nothing solid anywhere . |
| 17 | That 's been something hard to achieve with A-levels and GCSEs getting in the way . |
| 18 | The client may not hear what is being said because it is something hard to accept . |
| 19 | What a pity there is n't something there to cure the sickness of a love which is n't returned . |
| 20 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 21 | There is still something there to listen out for . ’ |
| 22 | We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around . |
| 23 | But perhaps my real mistake lay in assuming there was something there to know — something more than a cardboard cut-out . ’ |
| 24 | So in other words , we 're saying if they 're off sick , erm , they decide to go out and , you know , do something else to earn some money , then they would n't be able to claim under their policy . |
| 25 | Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . |
| 26 | Something else to take into consideration when choosing a carpet is which way does the room face . |
| 27 | She snapped the seat belt into position and stared out through the window as if in search of something else to organize . |
| 28 | ‘ Hopefully tomorrow , unless you manage to find something else to complain about in our department . ’ |
| 29 | Prices were falling and far-sighted men were looking for something else to cultivate . |
| 30 | It gives you something else to talk about . |