Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 2 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 3 | He turned and shouted something to the mercer below . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh felt that it was time he contributed something to the speculation . |
| 5 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 6 | Marcella Tate came to the Incident Room and made her statement which added nothing to the sum of their knowledge . |
| 7 | Hurd , who was entertaining members of the European Parliament to lunch at the Grand , murmured something to the effect that they would all meet Margaret soon enough , that evening at Jeffrey 's great party : ‘ The three ‘ Bs ’ : Beluga , Bollinger and bullshit . ’ |
| 8 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 9 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 10 | Lucenzo muttered something to the man , who grinned understandingly . |
| 11 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 12 | Brenda welcomed everyone to the meeting . |
| 13 | Operations director at Penrith , , welcomed everyone to the dinner and NW regional direction , , gave a short talk on the changes in the region since the merger . |
| 14 | The President , , welcomed everyone to the AGM . |
| 15 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 16 | The dramatic political and diplomatic developments of 1988 — of more importance to the achievement of a substantive peace than anything else since 1967 — owed nothing to the peace process . |
| 17 | Taking all of these courts and their personnel , bailies , clerks and procurators-fiscal , a great landowner like the Duke of Montrose was able to oblige a considerable number of his friends with offices which owed nothing to the Government . |
| 18 | His intelligence owed nothing to the college . |
| 19 | The success of those appearances in the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya owed everything to the professionalism that had transformed Kylie in two short years from innocent to hard-headed star . |
| 20 | The foreman yelled something to the ceiling in another language and stomped toward the door saying , ‘ The whole world is crazy , I tell you . |
| 21 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 23 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 24 | It owed something to the atmosphere of Leo XIII 's innovation ( but even in 1893 Loisy , a leading French biblical scholar and modernist , had lost his chair at Paris , and an encyclical had been published affirming the complete inerrancy of the Bible ) . |
| 25 | Such an anachronism owed something to the belief of Simon Draper — Virgin 's ‘ ears ’ — in the higher ideals of musical taste . |
| 26 | Wycliffe returned everything to the drawer . |
| 27 | He returned one to the pile and got a larger one . |
| 28 | Then , on September 9th , Amundsen called everyone to the back of the ship . |
| 29 | But the name meant nothing to the visitor ; obviously his fame had not penetrated the student community . |
| 30 | He offered one to the boy , and the boy politely refused . |