Example sentences of "something to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd better say something to Jed . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm told that the television is on most of the time in my house — the police can detect it — and I want to say something to Liam , if he 's watching . ’ |
| 3 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 4 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 5 | After all these years , I 'd taken something to bits and successfully put it all back together again . |
| 6 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 7 | None of her books was reprinted in her lifetime , not even Granny 's Wonderful Chair ( 1857 ) , a collection of seven fairy tales within a frame story , owing something to Grimm . |
| 8 | Jean Packman concludes by showing that new policy embodied in future legislation owes something to child care research studies in recent years . |
| 9 | Something to crow about ? |
| 10 | I was thinking when Daniel was down here that erm Paul you know and all his girlfriends , various girlfriends , for a long time now and I said something to Daniel well you know are you sort of courting yet ? |
| 11 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 12 | I think you 'd better mention something to Rosie love about that er |
| 13 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |
| 14 | The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney . |
| 15 | He leaned forward , saying something to Jesus , and seconds later the car drew to a halt in a lay-by . |
| 16 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 17 | The subsequent improvement in the balance of payments clearly owed something to devaluation but its effect is impossible to disentangle because of the general improvement in world markets . |
| 18 | The mother said something to Ruth , which the daughter repeated to me . |
| 19 | I 'd like to give something to Chris actually . |
| 20 | The scale of the triumph of 1918 no doubt owed something to Lloyd George , but the fact of Unionist victory did not , for without the pact the party would certainly have won some of the Coalition Liberal seats that it prevented them from attacking . |
| 21 | He gives something to Anna . |
| 22 | The Conservative election victory did owe something to Mrs Thatcher 's past efforts ; these efforts included a re-ordering of the social hierarchy , making the poor more down and out , and bringing the lower middle class ( as we old Marxists used to say ) or C2s in class-free speak , within shopping distance of middle class ( B/C1 ) comfort . |
| 23 | No doubt he had just given something to Mrs Files . |
| 24 | I saw him whisper something to Mrs Danby , but she did n't seem to hear him . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She whispered something to Mum , who furtively disappeared from the scene . |
| 27 | er she 's on , I think she said something earlier , well she told me she said something to mum and dad earlier on |
| 28 | And and er say send something to William George , or something involving the magistrates cos he was chairman of the of the er of the er |
| 29 | There was something to sex , too , in those days . |
| 30 | This is one of the earliest references we have in Milton to his own dedication to the task of preparing himself for leaving something to aftertimes that it would not willingly let die . |