Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking through his secretary , the Right Reverend Peter Ball says he would like everyone to know of his immense gratitude for their overwhelming support . |
| 2 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 3 | When you spend a bit of time in her company you suspect it might have something to do with her outgoing nature and rare charm . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , there has always been an undercurrent of concern that the correlation between the economic performance of Japan and Germany and their bank-based financing systems might be a causal one — in which case the UK 's poorer economic performance might have something to do with her market-based industrial financing system . |
| 5 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 6 | They fought as rookie amateurs , Ruddock taking the decision , but even Razor admitted : ‘ That wo n't have anything to do with our next fight . |
| 7 | But if she was marryin' one of her own kind she would n't get anybody to care for her any better than me . |
| 8 | She 'd lost her husband and her only daughter and did n't want anything to happen to her only granddaughter . |