Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [indef pn] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm here I 've got some formulae calculating production figures er we 've got different quarters formulae found are somewhat similar er there 's a so that I can copy one to any of the other adjacent cells outside will work I do n't have to edit the formula or do anything to it soon as I copy it , it 's alright for that cell . |
| 2 | I hope so , and if I can contribute something to that culture change I shall be glad to do so . |
| 3 | I am entering the RAF and then the Navy because I believe I can contribute something to this country by so doing . |
| 4 | In the next section , I offer some brief and critical remarks about a recent attempt to provide a general descriptive account of how knowledge develops which would say something to that issue . |
| 5 | An individual may not acquire a specific attitude — on how to vote , about race or trade unions — from the mass media , but he/she will derive information from the media which will contribute something to each of these individual areas . |
| 6 | Well I think er several points should be ventilated and er I , I think the , while you 're doing the agenda this evening you could add something to each item in turn |
| 7 | Then make a list of all the items and photocopy it so you can give one to each guest . |
| 8 | We should mean something to each other , something more than animated objects , walking . |
| 9 | We could say anything to each other — trying out ideas , talking over the happenings in our small world — and know that we were safe : there would be no teasing in public , no knowing glances , no betrayals . |
| 10 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 11 | We can say anything to each other . |
| 12 | My father would rage and storm , not so much at my mother as to her , and against Helen and Pat in their absence , but in the end neither of them would say anything to either of my sisters . |
| 13 | Last spring , when local authorities were rushing to finish community care plans , a report came out which showed they might mean nothing to many people . |