Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] something to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Elizabeth arrived Lydia was prepared to welcome her , since any additional flavour must add something to the evening , which was like Betty 's meatless stock into which she kept putting more and more dried herbs and burned onion in an effort to make it taste of something . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , ’ he was saying to Caroline , 'she 'd bring something to the table and I 'd have to ask what it was . |
| 3 | Some people will actually say , if I could add something to the plan that would cost you just a little bit more , which means that if you 're off work through illness , the company , Abbey will pay the premiums for you , would you be prepared to pay a bit more . |
| 4 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |
| 5 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 6 | The American constitution can not be changed except through a very cumbersome and difficult constitutional procedure which requires the vote of two thirds of the members of both houses of congress and a resolution from three quarters of the leg state legislatures , so it 's not a simple majority , you ca n't just simply say oh let's add something to the constitution , very difficult indeed erm er and there has n't been a significant recent amendment to the constitution . |
| 7 | are going to be those that will give something to the school , rather than simply be an appointment just for some stature . |
| 8 | Encourage your spokesman to use everyday language and , if there are large figures to put across , use analogies which will mean something to the listener . |
| 9 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 10 | " I can adjust the stove , if you like , " said Richard , in relief " I can do something to the regulator . " |