Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect she says the most important thing is for parents to build in some kind of motivation or prospect that means something to their offspring . |
| 2 | This collection of 40 , hour-long videos covers every year from 1930 to 1969 — just choose a year that means something to your loved one and let them sit back and capture the atmosphere with news , special events and TV clips of the time . |
| 3 | Any any way that means something to you that 's a good way . |
| 4 | And there 's people , like famous people of the telly just sitting and talking erm , and saying prayers every night , and walking around a typical area that means something to them . |
| 5 | Contrite at first , but ‘ naughty ’ is an adult idea that means nothing to toddlers . |
| 6 | She takes away everything that means anything to him — his jewels , his ducats , the family religion and herself . |
| 7 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 8 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 9 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 10 | Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government . |
| 11 | Refined white sugar is also entirely lacking in nutrients and adds nothing to our diet . |
| 12 | Be that as it may , our source notes that Spring has been written from scratch , is not Unix and owes nothing to AT&T 's code . |
| 13 | One time the doctor puts on rubber gloves and says something to Mum , and she goes out , leaving me sitting on the high bed , dangling my legs . |
| 14 | One young married points at Babur and says something to the Gazza clone with her . |
| 15 | Er two points , one comes onto environment for Mr who says that they are seeking for the environmental benefits to the A sixty one and relates something to the percentages . |
| 16 | Thus the dilemma of the polluting industry is that controlling pollution is expensive , but adds nothing to the value of the goods produced , and is bad business for any firm whose main concern is to maintain profitability in a competitive situation . ’ |