Example sentences of "[vb infin] something [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not surprising , therefore , that with all this emphasis upon grading the members of this department have not got around to experimenting with self-assessment , although both felt they might try and introduce something along these lines for the next fourth year . |
| 2 | A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it . |
| 3 | Although she had never allowed herself to consider it a possibility , the thought had crossed her mind that he might know something about that letter . |
| 4 | Those journalists may know something about environmental issues , but if they understand transport issues , they were jolly well doing their best to conceal the fact . |
| 5 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 6 | I do know something of this city . ’ |
| 7 | It is expected that students will understand what is meant in this context by the terms rank , cohesion , and context of situation , and that they will know something of those recent developments with which the term ‘ Systemic ’ is particularly associated . |
| 8 | ‘ How can you know something like this ? ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |
| 10 | Indeed , we will need something like this if travel to other stars , let alone to other galaxies , is to be a practical proposition in the future . |
| 11 | Indeed , Fleury felt quite like a sculptor as he worked away and he thought that it must feel something like this to carve an object of beauty out of the primeval rock . |
| 12 | Okay I want , , research , help us , erm , help erm , help us give something like that , help us give a best possible start to them , help us give them , to help us , to them , |
| 13 | ‘ You might believe you can achieve something with those acres of rough pasture and that extremely overgrown wood ; I am , as yet , unconvinced . ’ |
| 14 | It showed you can achieve something at short notice , provided you 're prepared to drop everything and cover the cost . |
| 15 | One of her children would achieve something in this world . |
| 16 | If the staff of a school are required to ‘ do something about equal opportunities ’ and have read that a single-sex environment improves girls ' performance in mathematics and science , there may well be the belief that once they have reorganised their classes in this way , they have done all that is necessary . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we can do something about that straightaway and at the same time keep you under observation . |
| 18 | Yes yes I 'll do something about that . ’ |
| 19 | Tugging the jeans over her thighs , she said : ‘ Why do n't you do something about that bitch at Larksoken , the one suing Neil ? |
| 20 | They could do something about that . |
| 21 | Women have always felt both complaint and commitment about domestic life with men — the difference is that today they can do something about that contradiction . |
| 22 | " Why , I think we can do something about that , " said the little girl . |
| 23 | Aye that 's right , that 's right , aye , but er sixty six we can do something about that nowadays . |
| 24 | " Yes , we 'd better do something about that . " |
| 25 | When will he do something about that deplorable record ? |
| 26 | Well , he could do something about that . |
| 27 | Possibly the twenties costumes would n't be too kind to Therese , but they 'd do something about that when the time came . |
| 28 | Once you get that down , this then becomes the area that they might think , let's do something about that . |
| 29 | Someone 's got ta do something about that Brian , ? |
| 30 | And see , you know , if they can do something about that , maybe it 'd be right time . |