Example sentences of "be something [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If all of us parents pull together surely there must be something we can do to save our children suffering for so long . ’ |
| 2 | There must be something we can use to get their interest . ’ |
| 3 | Even whilst a person is waiting to go to hospital there may be something you can do to help . |
| 4 | They say that I mean any changes any in temperature are very noticeable so w Like it is working in the middle of winter offshore would be something I would have to come to terms with but no I mean I do n't think there 's any problems work-wise . |
| 5 | There might be something I 'd like to watch that comes on at ten o'clock . |
| 6 | We only call dolphins when we need help in a rough sea , or we are in difficulty or if there is something we would like to know about relatives at a distance over the ocean . |
| 7 | As a result of that , and I think to make sure this is something we would have to ask the advisory committee but I would read it that that includes mutual recognition of eldership . |
| 8 | Anyway that is something we 'll have to develop I think for all all levels of of staff . |
| 9 | The exact relation of what we see on the vases to what was shown on the walls is something we shall have to consider , but that in some way these vase pictures do reflect the revolution in wall-painting can not be doubted . |
| 10 | The prospect of winters here is something we will have to prepare for carefully . |
| 11 | Mm that is something we will have to investigate . |
| 12 | We felt the Scottish people had taken us to their hearts and it is something we 'd like to repeat . ’ |
| 13 | Mourning is something we can choose to do . |
| 14 | It is possible for governing bodies to build in an external element in the appeal procedure : this is something they might wish to consider . |
| 15 | For historians the drawback is that the gaps appear at just about every point where there is something they would like to know . |
| 16 | Not only that , but it is something he will have handled when he was a kid . |
| 17 | If you find in the longer run that the process of " being in love " stops you functioning properly ( i.e. getting your college work done ) that too is something you might need to look at with some skilled help ( i.e. a skilled counsellor ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I think maybe the reason he is n't speaking to me , ’ Ellie ventured , ‘ is something you might have said to him . ’ |
| 19 | But that is something you 'll have to judge for yourself . |
| 20 | I think it is important to stress to readers that sometimes there is something you can do to help fish in distress . |
| 21 | Botha , who wins his 28th and possibly last cap for South Africa , said : ‘ We have received a wonderful welcome in England which has relaxed my players and this is something you can see reflected in our three wins here so far . |
| 22 | As an Orc and Goblin player animosity is something you will have to learn to live with . |
| 23 | In creating figures from the imagination , this grasp of the three-dimensional form is something you will need to call upon constantly as you draw : your practice with these simplified forms will help increase the stock of knowledge you bring to the task . |
| 24 | In creating figures from the imagination , this grasp of the three-dimensional form is something you will need to call upon constantly as you draw : your practice with these simplified forms will help increase the stock of knowledge you bring to the task . |
| 25 | Why that should be when we know change is inevitable is something I shall have to ask my daughter . |
| 26 | This is something I shall have to discuss with the Chief Constable . |
| 27 | I take the squad to Holland every year and that is something I would like to see continued but I have other ideas which it may not be possible to put into practice . |
| 28 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 29 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 30 | There is something I should have told you . |