Example sentences of "[conj] something to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 2 | In an extended piece of discourse , a common procedure , known as anaphora , is for the identity of someone or something to be given once at the beginning , and thereafter referred to as she or he or it . |
| 3 | Or something to that effect . |
| 4 | Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half ! |
| 5 | It was a what they call the fighting game , or something to that effect and er the the I remember once I he seeing them having a cock fight . |
| 6 | Or something to that effect — all I recalled incontrovertibly was that old-fashioned construction , ‘ if thou canst ’ … |
| 7 | It was just that I and the others in the class — at least , the ones who turned up yesterday , a lot of people did n't bother — anyway , we felt it would be nice to send some flowers and a card or something to her relatives . |
| 8 | The , the group usually has a leader or symbols which represent its aspirations like the statue of the Virgin Mary or , or Golden Churches or something to which act as representatives or icons for the aspirations , the ideals of the individual 's ego and every member of the group shares those , that leader or those icons or those ideals and consequently the group is unified by a kind of sentry petal flow of individual narcissistic libido towards the centre , towards the leader and that makes them more identifiable with each other . |
| 9 | try and get a list of contacts or something to , I mean Lucy 's quite happy to do it and |
| 10 | proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this , to allocate , to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order , we think that 's inappropriate , If we 're putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done , so I 'm at all , or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that , that money . |
| 11 | Well as I understand they must have had pumps down there or something to or something to keep them dry because er |
| 12 | if erm you know , if we go a bit later , say like about seven o'clock or something to the cinema . |
| 13 | but they 've got so much there 's eight tanks or something to every fucking one of ours |
| 14 | must of had a knife or something to it , sliced was n't it ? |
| 15 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 16 | Rather than something to be relegated to nothingness , like we find today . |
| 17 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 18 | They owed something to European social democracy , including the French experience of planning , and something to the planning experience of other parts of the developing world , notably India . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 20 | The phenomenon of the bulk of the population surviving infancy and living well into their 70s and 80s is quite new and something to be proud of . |
| 21 | Spring , our particular spring , is always late and something to be talked about . |
| 22 | in effect , using BSL in further and higher education is still seen by many as part of the ‘ handicap of deafness ’ and something to be overcome in education rather than used . |
| 23 | After Johnny disappeared from view around the corner of the house , Cassie wandered disconsolately indoors , realizing that she needed both the bathroom and something to drink.Although she had n't eaten since lunch time , she had no appetite and the thought of food nauseated her . |
| 24 | The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with . |
| 25 | This remarkable service makes him one of the longest serving employees and something to be proud of . |
| 26 | It is as if by being able to make moral judgements people recognise , not simply an additional technical possibility , but something to which they wish to give ultimate significance . |
| 27 | And make no mistake , the rum ration is very important to a matelot ; not only to be sipped or gulped , but something to be used for bargaining or the repayment of a favour , or even bottled and taken home on leave . |
| 28 | At the same time it should make us aware of the enormity of the task that still lies before us in developing an adequate analysis of the art made by artists for whom ‘ being a woman ’ was not a given , but something to be explored through a historically shaped and socially conditioned artistic . |
| 29 | Despite its title , and for all Fraser 's grave and civil investigative demeanour , the book does not exhibit this past as something to be searched for , uncovered , so much as something which is unfindable , interminable . |
| 30 | No one would deny that enterprise and competitiveness are important ; but what we see around us today is the elevation of self-interest as something to be applauded . |