Example sentences of "[verb] something [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 2 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 3 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 4 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 5 | But that , that is a Y equals something X to the tenth , so it 's it 's not going to have a gradient that requires Y equals something to the tenth . |
| 6 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 7 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 8 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 9 | The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two . |
| 10 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 11 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 12 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 13 | That way , we might be able to achieve something over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 14 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 15 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |