Example sentences of "[verb] something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Unix System Labs , which has a good server story but may lack something on the desktop end like applications , is reportedly trying to get Quorum interested in Destiny . |
| 2 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 3 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 4 | However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task . |
| 5 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |
| 6 | He turned and shouted something to the mercer below . |
| 7 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 8 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 9 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 10 | [ Op paras ] I enclose with this letter , the following : ( a ) a leaflet explaining the position regarding costs and the funding of your claim ; ( b ) a leaflet explaining your entitlement to Legal Aid ; ( c ) a leaflet explaining entitlements to welfare benefits ; ( d ) a brochure briefly explaining what happens next in Personal Injury cases ; ( e ) a short brochure explaining something about the Firm 's other services . |
| 11 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 12 | We 'd have seen if one of us had tipped something into the soup . ’ |
| 13 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 14 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 15 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 16 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 17 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 18 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 19 | This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence . |
| 20 | Although hailed by the leaders of the Catholic revival as their patron , ‘ the good Earl John ’ ( as he was known by them ) retained something of the recusant Catholic families ' suspicion of ‘ enthusiasm ’ , religious fervour , and triumphalism . |
| 21 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 22 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 23 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 24 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 25 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 26 | All the families cook something towards the meal . |
| 27 | Having considered something of the nature of aesthetic perception , it remains necessary to link this with education and with techniques stemming from Personal Construct theory which might well be used both for learning and for investigation in the area of artistic appraisal . |
| 28 | Now , although the polls have only just closed , I think that , on the basis of a sample of the replies to our invitations , we can make a projection about the number of people coming to this party and also say something about the ‘ social mix ’ . |
| 29 | They say something about the faith necessary for Christian belief in Jesus . |
| 30 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |