Example sentences of "[to-vb] something [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 6 | Secondly is evidence from sediments and materials , and the material comprising the river terrace could be used to infer something about the mode of deposition and the physical environment at the time . |
| 7 | But in order to appreciate Derrida 's critique of these issues , it is necessary to know something of the position from which he makes it . |
| 8 | Each of the catechists must be in touch with their own life experience , and in particular the helper catechists need to know something of the life history of their friends so that a real historical event can be shared when it comes to the time for each one to share parts of their personal story — for that is where God speaks to each one of us . |
| 9 | It will be interesting to know something of the history too . |
| 10 | ‘ We must make every effort to know something of the detail of what is happening . |
| 11 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 12 | It 's good to know something about the man . |
| 13 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 14 | A parents ' evening in late September or early October gives time for the class to settle and for the teacher to get to know something about the child . |
| 15 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
| 16 | ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’ |
| 17 | The counsellor 's task is not just to understand only one facet of the counsellee 's life , but to know something about the totality . |
| 18 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 19 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 20 | Furthermore , traditional grammar sees in the finite verb a word which predicates something about its subject : The grammatical function of a finite verb is to serve as a predicate word , that is , in an ordinary affirmative sentence to state something about the subject of the sentence … |
| 21 | Huy stooped to pick something off the ground , that lay three-quarters hidden in the rough yellow grass that grew around the sides of the stone . |
| 22 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 23 | ‘ Did his general condition lead you to expect something of the sort ? ’ |
| 24 | Bearing in mind the bias of the Canongate survey , it is nevertheless possible to use data from the 38 families with compositor daughters to suggest something of the family background from which a number of our women compositors came . |
| 25 | If this is so , then the church may begin to experience something of the grief of Jesus going ‘ through all the towns and villages ’ and being filled with compassion because the crowds ‘ were harassed and helpless , like sheep without a shepherd ’ . |
| 26 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 27 | It made her feel more at home , already , to steal something from the larder . |
| 28 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 29 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 30 | Instead his diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age ; at times , indeed , he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated . |