Example sentences of "[verb] something [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Unix System Labs , which has a good server story but may lack something on the desktop end like applications , is reportedly trying to get Quorum interested in Destiny . |
| 2 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 3 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 4 | However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task . |
| 5 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 6 | He turned and shouted something to the mercer below . |
| 7 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 8 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 9 | [ Op paras ] I enclose with this letter , the following : ( a ) a leaflet explaining the position regarding costs and the funding of your claim ; ( b ) a leaflet explaining your entitlement to Legal Aid ; ( c ) a leaflet explaining entitlements to welfare benefits ; ( d ) a brochure briefly explaining what happens next in Personal Injury cases ; ( e ) a short brochure explaining something about the Firm 's other services . |
| 10 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 11 | We 'd have seen if one of us had tipped something into the soup . ’ |
| 12 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 13 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 14 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 15 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 16 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 17 | All the families cook something towards the meal . |
| 18 | Having considered something of the nature of aesthetic perception , it remains necessary to link this with education and with techniques stemming from Personal Construct theory which might well be used both for learning and for investigation in the area of artistic appraisal . |
| 19 | They say something about the faith necessary for Christian belief in Jesus . |
| 20 | Say something about the death , about Hilary 's death . |
| 21 | Do you have any indication of its source , and say something about the background of people . |
| 22 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |
| 23 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 24 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 25 | Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) . |
| 26 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 27 | I found something from the AIDS one the new Benetton advert , have you seen that ? |
| 28 | I thought we could hang something on the fact that one of the most enduring sexual icons of the age was in fact what today would be called — uh — big . ’ |
| 29 | Four women suggest something of the variety revealed by the ‘ intensive studies ’ which were included here . |
| 30 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |