Example sentences of "something to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |
| 2 | Their certainty owes something to a sense of betrayal . |
| 3 | He did something to a friend of mine , two years ago . |
| 4 | Their refusal owes something to a distaste for addiction in itself . |
| 5 | That does something to a man . |
| 6 | On a gleaming fibreglass deck a girl with waist-length chestnut hair and tiny navy shorts was reclining against the cockpit , calling something to a man on a neighbouring craft . |
| 7 | She did something to a man : made him feel about six , and caught with a warm jam puff from the kitchen table . |
| 8 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 9 | Before putting something to a vote you need to negotiate ( usually out of role ) what it means . |
| 10 | Woolley said something to a steward . |
| 11 | It thus contributes something to an understanding of field research in the ‘ classic ’ period of British functionalism . |
| 12 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |
| 13 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 14 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 15 | At his first approach to man-machine conversation , the system analyst often tends to think of the man as originating each part : the man says something to the computer and the computer replies . |
| 16 | It did n't make a great occasion for me , though I think the backstage tension did contribute something to the success of the production . |
| 17 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 18 | Is he doing something to the tree ? |
| 19 | ‘ No , something to the floor , I think . ’ |
| 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 | Therese was standing on the stage , Madge Grimsilk on her knees crouching and doing something to the bottom of Therese 's costume , which was most certainly not the hired costume . |
| 22 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |
| 23 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | if erm you know , if we go a bit later , say like about seven o'clock or something to the cinema . |
| 25 | are going to be those that will give something to the school , rather than simply be an appointment just for some stature . |
| 26 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 27 | If there IS something to the story , it begs 2 questions : — |
| 28 | No doubt , repeated election victories under the leadership of Mr Hawke owe something to the disunity of Right-wing forces in Australia , but the fresh emphases in Labour thinking are also very significant . |
| 29 | Encourage your spokesman to use everyday language and , if there are large figures to put across , use analogies which will mean something to the listener . |
| 30 | But whatever the proportion agreed with the taxman , the cost of superfluous luxury , of expensive servicing and of trading-in a fully-depreciated old faithful for a new machine would once again mean something to the wallet of Mr Toad 's great-grandson . |