Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] something [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , at the moment there 's no housekeeper so unless I actually say to the maid will you just put something in the oven for me ? |
| 2 | If I can just say something about the management to start off with . |
| 3 | ‘ You did not find something on the river bank that you thought had made your fortune ? ’ |
| 4 | Has age mellowed you , or do you still feel something of the vigour of the same emotions ? |
| 5 | We could always find something in the law to help us . |
| 6 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 7 | Clients on income-related benefits get free vouchers , others pay a flat rate fee , though most will probably pay something in the future . |
| 8 | From an argument based on such negative evidence it may be that as a hunting weapon they were more common than the record suggests , having such a high use-value that they were not disposed of at burial ; if accepted this would also say something of the use-value of weaponry . |
| 9 | The Admiralty would probably say something to the effect that Crabb was testing highly secret equipment that could not be discussed in detail and had unfortunately drowned . |
| 10 | You 've got to have all that side of it , and if you 're in teaching it 's a bit ridiculous to be in any job if you do n't know something about the history of it . |
| 11 | But if we do n't leave something in the till , it will be spotted as a cheeky scam , and bribery or not , I wo n't get away with it . ’ |
| 12 | From this perspective , the growth of government may well owe something to the need by capital to socialise demand and legitimate the mode of production ; on the other hand , political power is relatively open and the growth of government may be driven by pluralistic bargaining , rising expectations and through effective working-class parties seizing power due to a fortuitous combination of forces in the political struggle over and around the state . |
| 13 | Anyone who has not seen Karajan 's Berliners in full cry — the CD videos will rectify this omission in the fullness of time — can at least catch something of the wonder of the spectacle in the piece Neville Cardus wrote about the first of the 1961 Beethoven concerts in London . |
| 14 | One can sometimes learn something about the population from a study of coins which have been recovered but perhaps not much in Islay . |
| 15 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 16 | You should however show something of the audience , particularly in the early stages of the lecture , otherwise someone viewing the recording has no idea who the speaker is talking to . |
| 17 | Erm should I at least be prepared to again stick something in the newsletter about . |
| 18 | But whatever the proportion agreed with the taxman , the cost of superfluous luxury , of expensive servicing and of trading-in a fully-depreciated old faithful for a new machine would once again mean something to the wallet of Mr Toad 's great-grandson . |
| 19 | See when I 'm walking I can actually hear something in the back of |