Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , this focus on child support does nothing to compensate women for the real inequalities that marriage and child-rearing brings . |
| 2 | Plus I need someone to carry boxes from the wholesaler . |
| 3 | ‘ Clive said he did n't need a crew , only someone to take care of the meals — ’ She drew her palm across her forehead . |
| 4 | CONOR O'DWYER ( Laura 's Beau ) : ‘ He had plenty to do coming onto the racecourse , but finished in great style . |
| 5 | Your father had to have somebody to take care of the house , as well as you and himself . ’ |
| 6 | The authors continued to assert that ‘ conspiracy theories which range from the unprovable to the incredible do nothing to cast light on the Jewish Question or credibility on the Nationalist movement ’ . |
| 7 | The picturesque lake and island grotto , large turf amphitheatre , vistas , avenues and glades , combine to give something to delight visitors through the year . |
| 8 | Plaited flex certainly but it probably had a large knot or something to increase pressure in the region of the larynx . ’ |
| 9 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |
| 10 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |
| 11 | We have already seen that Hobbes and Gassendi diverged from Bacon 's belief that the scrutiny of natural histories would enable one to reach certainty about the causes of things , and thought that one could produce conjectures and hypotheses at best . |
| 12 | You know , something to give customers at the end of the year . |
| 13 | Doorways opened off this stone passage right and left , one to give access to the porter 's lodge , the other to a stairway leading up to the gatehouse itself , above the pend , from which the drawbridge and portcullis were managed . |
| 14 | Even the digression up to Cajamarca now seemed in retrospect more like an adventure than something to send shivers down the spine . |
| 15 | It did something to spread awareness of the way the majority lived , and therefore to spread dissatisfaction and alarm about a potentially destructive force . |
| 16 | They will look with justified suspicion , therefore , at Jacques Delors 's suggestion yesterday , that there should be two constitutional conferences next year — one to transfer powers from the national state to the EC on economic and monetary policy and the other , later , to tackle democratic control . |
| 17 | On that occasion he had made a case both for a tutor-organiser to increase provision for trade unionist students and also for one to develop work in the New Towns of Harlow , Stevenage , Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield . |
| 18 | Louis-Napoleon was now convinced that he must do something to remind Frenchmen of the existence of the Bonapartes . |
| 19 | There were no new fodder or root crops , except for the various leguminous plants that did something to improve fallows in the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's apparent that Morrissey will STOP AT NOTHING to manufacture confrontations with the norm in order that The Smiths remain special . ’ |
| 21 | In diplomacy with subject or foreign peoples , satraps were supposed to refer everything ( o the Great King ( Diod. xv.41.5 ) , but there is nothing to imply deference to the king in inscriptions like Mausolus ' treaty with the Pamphylian city of Phaselis , or his grant of political privileges to the Kretan city of Knossos ( H. Bengtson ( 1975 ) Die Staatsverträge des Altertums , edn 2 , vol. ii , 260 , J. Crampa ( 1972 ) Inscriptions of Labraunda 40 = Mausolus M 7 , 10 ) . |
| 22 | The cell failed to send anyone to take part in the few educational courses available , such as those arranged by the agricultural station . |
| 23 | We are in the middle of this inquiry , so it is far too early for anyone to make predictions about the outcome , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Most applications are made by The Law Society through its Adjudication Committee , but it is open to anyone to make application to the Tribunal without recourse to The Law Society . |
| 25 | Er if you get it wrong erm there 's the inheritance provision for family and dependence act nineteen eighty five , which is the statutory provision allowing you spouse who left nothing to all those children who left nothing to make applications to the court . |
| 26 | Being mostly confined to Buckinghamshire , the handful of parsons reported as having no personal property serve as much as anything to highlight doubts about the approach to clerical assessments there . |