Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the director of the RSC production , Phyllida Lloyd , has tried to ginger things up ( where they do not need gingering ) with a number of anachronistic touches — a Victorian costume here , a modern uniform there , saxophones , neon lights , and so on . |
| 2 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
| 3 | So it would 've led to other things as well . |
| 4 | If the necessity for the agreement is overlooked then so will be the necessity of the child 's having been trained to react to certain things in a certain way for it to mean anything by ‘ It is red ’ . |
| 5 | I have suffered cut fingers while being attacked when trying to see to different things in the tank . |
| 6 | It was after they 'd finished their porcheddu and the conversation had switched to other things that Guido suddenly excused himself . |
| 7 | It 's important to stress the relationship with Social Services , in that the Agency staff who link the very wide range of people from Social Services , often those people who hold local budgets and are in a position , using the funding that we have allocated to diverse things , to come up with creative solutions for , for er , keeping people at home rather than in , in institutional care . |