Example sentences of "[verb] something [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 10 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 11 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 12 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 13 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 14 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 15 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 16 | He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem . |
| 17 | It is vitally important to know something of the individual richness and variety of each religious tradition before becoming subject to the generalisations of those engaged in comparative religion . |
| 18 | Let us resolve that we will give something during the coming months , even if it is only something that we no longer need , to help those who are hungry and in desperate need . |
| 19 | He was so efficient , I 'm wondering if he could do something about the disgusting chick pea casserole they serve on the Intercity 125 . |
| 20 | If the Minister is genuinely concerned about maritime safety , he must do something about the massive proposed cuts in the coastguard service . |
| 21 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 22 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 25 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |
| 26 | They were more articulate , had seen something of the wider world , retained a thirst for knowledge , and were sceptical towards the Church . |
| 27 | We have seen something of the various situations in which non-fatal physical harm might occur . |
| 28 | But he had certainly seen something of the Greek civilization , with its philosophic schools , theatres and gymnasia . |
| 29 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 30 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |