Example sentences of "[verb] something [conj] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 2 | In the long run we still want something that will enable us to stop the resistance completely , ’ she said . |
| 3 | In the wind and rattle sounds I 'd hear her start to cry and put my arm around her and lift her chin and say something that would calm her . |
| 4 | Say something that will get her … interested . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There is nothing I can tell you , Officer , ’ said Iris in her stilted French , ‘ but my friend has something that may interest you . ’ |
| 7 | Why do n't you do something that will get you somewhere , Karim ? ’ |
| 8 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 9 | I hope you 've heard something that 'll make you think , and think positively and perhaps act positively . |
| 10 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 11 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
| 12 | ‘ Tom , I might have something that can help you with the Lewis case . ’ |
| 13 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 14 | Make the best of a bad job and busy yourself doing something that 'll keep you out of the firing line . |
| 15 | Sometimes an observant parent will notice something that will give us a clue ; after a child recovers from one of those high fevers that ‘ lay it very low ’ for a short time it is sometimes seen that the child is more ‘ well ’ than before it became ‘ ill ’ , provided the illness has not been inappropriately treated or interfered with in some way . |
| 16 | Maybe she 's a control freak , he was thinking , getting into an unreasonable flap just because she might have taken something that could unclench her a little ; but then if he 'd kept his mouth shut , she 'd never even have known . |
| 17 | Then it may be necessary to have them publish something that could help us . ’ |
| 18 | You 've got a bit of an infection bubbling away in there , but we 'll prescribe something that should clear it up fairly quickly . |
| 19 | Maybe she learned something that could help us find the person who 's been using Delia 's name . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have a feeling you have begun something that will keep you busy for quite some time to come . ’ |
| 21 | I was aching to say something that would help her . |