Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] something [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’ |
| 2 | Immediately beyond the church and school the road has a less steep section , and soon passes a small cheese dairy where , depending on circumstances of the season , there may be an opportunity to see something of the work that is typical of this type of country . |
| 3 | Theories of normative income redistribution set a desirable standard or target , whereas the more positive theories are an attempt to predict something about the nature of redistribution in the empirical world which may or may not be consistent with one or more or any of the views of desirability . |
| 4 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 5 | This is because the crime of indecent assault requires the defendant to do something to the victim . |
| 6 | The dinner , Maxim decided , would be best remembered as ‘ nourishing ’ , and he went back to the ante-room to do something about the taste of it . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |
| 8 | But equally it is important for the member of a department to understand something of the way in which it works , and the internal and external forces that shape its policies . |
| 9 | Jinny had made one attempt to say something to the boy , but Doyle stopped her immediately , catching hold of her chin and jerking her head away . |
| 10 | If not , can the Leader of the House at least persuade the silent Department of Trade and Industry to say something on the subject ? |
| 11 | Furthermore , traditional grammar sees in the finite verb a word which predicates something about its subject : The grammatical function of a finite verb is to serve as a predicate word , that is , in an ordinary affirmative sentence to state something about the subject of the sentence … |
| 12 | Scotland 's determination to take something from the night was shown in the 64th minute , too , when a defender , Wright , was replaced by a forward , his Aberdeen team-mate , Scott Booth . |
| 13 | that exercise to produce something by the end of January , consultation . |
| 14 | Scott 's appointment could be easily justified on the grounds of his qualifications alone , but the attempt by the Select Committee to make something of the competition results only serves to cast doubt on the reasons for the appointment . |
| 15 | The remainder of the week proved busy , the demands made by the earthquake having caused a backlog of normal work , in addition to a sudden need to do something about the restlessness she had begun to notice in Florian Jones . |
| 16 | And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then . |
| 17 | Or do you want to have a chance to say something in the light of the way the discussion 's progressed during the day ? |
| 18 | As you know there have been the history of it is , is well known to most commissioners I 'm sure , there have been m there has been more than one attempt in the recent , in the last decade to bring something to the assembly er along these lines . |
| 19 | oh yes he could … just before half time United had an even better chance to make something of the game … |
| 20 | There is little doubt that this particular development was motivated largely by the wish to restore something of the vigour and resistance to disease of the older types to modern colours and shapes . |
| 21 | You ca n't really ask the government to do something about the logging when it 's owned by themselves , I mean , or rather it 's controlled by the powers of the country and the only way to do something there is to boycott their timber , not to pressure the government , and we 're back to , you know , back to square one . |
| 22 | In those terms alone , have not the Government and the NHS a moral obligation to do something about the matter ? |
| 23 | ‘ We must make every effort to know something of the detail of what is happening . |
| 24 | ‘ Where are we heading now ? ’ she asked in an effort to salvage something from the day if it was at all possible . |
| 25 | I wish finally in this introduction to say something of the nature of the question which feminism is raising here for Christianity . |
| 26 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 27 | Will he set an example by persuading the Prime Minister to do something about the membership of the Cabinet ? |
| 28 | While ministers in Holland and Belgium are intervening ‘ before breakfast , lunch , tea and dinner ’ in order to rescue something of the Daf structure , their counterpart in the UK holds to the view that the market alone should decide Leyland Daf 's future . |
| 29 | An example may serve best at this stage to illustrate something of the range of problems often encountered by pupils when composing non-time-related texts . |
| 30 | Indeed , many authors expect and require the reader to bring something to the text . |