Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 2 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 3 | Marcella Tate came to the Incident Room and made her statement which added nothing to the sum of their knowledge . |
| 4 | The foreman yelled something to the ceiling in another language and stomped toward the door saying , ‘ The whole world is crazy , I tell you . |
| 5 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 7 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 8 | It owed something to the atmosphere of Leo XIII 's innovation ( but even in 1893 Loisy , a leading French biblical scholar and modernist , had lost his chair at Paris , and an encyclical had been published affirming the complete inerrancy of the Bible ) . |
| 9 | Such an anachronism owed something to the belief of Simon Draper — Virgin 's ‘ ears ’ — in the higher ideals of musical taste . |
| 10 | Then , on September 9th , Amundsen called everyone to the back of the ship . |
| 11 | Now , returning across the Hungerford Bridge , those same thoughts came to haunt him a little as the overhead lights stained everything to the colour of dull old parchment . |
| 12 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 13 | As Niki rightly points out , that year proved something to the whole of FI . |
| 14 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |