Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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1 | Just sit down ( I thought the idea was to dance — IM ) and listen to ‘ Yes Please ’ a few times until you realise that Shaun 's lyrics and the band 's music together still mean something to all their fans who follow a band purely for their music … so what were you doing talking to the stupid old Happy Mondays after all ? |
2 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
3 | Then she would go down to his cluttered little house in South Kensington with his hundreds of contacts ( for he was clever enough never to leave anything to chance ) and he would pronounce them all ‘ Absolutely Divine , ’ but at last succeed , with supreme anguish , in selecting one or two which were even more divine than the others . |
4 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
5 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
6 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
7 | Had she ever really meant anything to him ? |
8 | But whatever the proportion agreed with the taxman , the cost of superfluous luxury , of expensive servicing and of trading-in a fully-depreciated old faithful for a new machine would once again mean something to the wallet of Mr Toad 's great-grandson . |
9 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
10 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
11 | ‘ I did n't want the students to be ’ , she recalls , ‘ I did n't really want anybody to be , and I certainly did n't think students had any right to be . |
12 | In retrospect , he says , ‘ Thatcherism did n't really offer anything to kids at the age of fourteen . |
13 | And I said well And she , well to be honest Bren she said , she has n't really done anything to me and Sid has she ? |
14 | ‘ You did n't even say anything to Barbara Coleman ? ’ |
15 | we do n't actually do anything to I mean sometimes you get comments about the way that it 's helped people . |
16 | In his preface to the catalogue he wrote : ‘ He no longer owes anything to his surroundings . |
17 | no longer adds anything to the general prohibition set out in article 52 , since the court has held that , as from the end of the transitional period , article 52 is directly applicable . |
18 | The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down . |