Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do all the drawings , unlike other studios where you have someone to do the cars , someone to do the buildings . |
| 2 | As for quality , it 's just for simple cases and in truly complex insolvencies or where we wanted someone to trade the company through , the need to get the person or firm with the right expertise would tend to override any cost concerns . ’ |
| 3 | So , unsurprisingly , she ensures that she does nothing to cross the ‘ important ’ people on which she is dependent . |
| 4 | It 's very important for the environment that we do something to stop the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere . |
| 5 | None of the four structures given in the Government 's proposals are desirable , SNH says , arguing that they do nothing to tackle the problems caused by historic boundaries such as the fact that one local boundary runs down the middle of Loch Lomond . |
| 6 | This , combined with an unwillingness to lend more money to ‘ high risk ’ countries , considerably reduces their chances of running into trouble , although it does nothing to help the poorest nations . |
| 7 | What is important about this contribution to linguistic theory is that it allows one to analyze the personal or ‘ subjective ’ elements of language without having to resort to any real correlative outside language . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , while the Report may have rejected the reactionary normativist ideology it is also the case that it did nothing to challenge the dominant legal culture . |
| 9 | She was thankful that he said nothing to express the inner rage he must be feeling . |
| 10 | And I want somebody to help the little ones later on . |
| 11 | ‘ And sometimes I 've wondered if it was my fault … after my mother died I felt so lost , it was as if I needed someone to fill the void she left . |
| 12 | Erm i if you want anything to stop the pain I 'll give it you . |
| 13 | If you need someone to do the taping , either make it one musician 's responsibility , or try to find someone who would like to mix your sound at gigs . |
| 14 | If things get really bad and we need something to divert the Seven . ’ |
| 15 | We 've decided to set up a campaign to put pressure on the Government and we need someone to run the office . |
| 16 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 17 | However , its benefits were confined to those already holding land , and it did nothing to relieve the problem of landlessness . |
| 18 | It was a farce , a terrible play , but still a real play because these two were acting out a charade of fright and face-saving and if he did anything to break the illusion that they were still taking decisions for themselves then he was going to get himself shot . |
| 19 | But I sent someone to meet the Charlotte T. when she docked at Tilbury on her return . |
| 20 | But I grabbed something to stay the pangs of hunger on the way down . |
| 21 | I accept that , and I admit that there have been occasions when I and other hon. Members have blackmailed various organisations , including British Rail , with the amount of time that we would take in the House unless they did something to improve the position of our constituents . |
| 22 | But they had no-one to explain the uses of what they learned and knowledge of itself could easily overbalance a carefully structured society . |
| 23 | Surely the great blaze of reds and golden yellows was a marvellous sight , but they did nothing to ease the apprehension in her heart . |
| 24 | But they did nothing to diminish the heat , seeming instead to enclose it and its still , threatening air under a thick muffling lid . |
| 25 | Simmons entered the Test with two centuries in his two innings in the One-Day Internationals but he did nothing to erase the doubts over his credentials as a Test batsman , airily driving a low catch to mid-off . |
| 26 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 27 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 28 | But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making . |
| 29 | In effect , ignoring the effects of gender in this way merely reinforces stereotyping because it does nothing to challenge the definition of certain aspects of the curriculum as masculine or feminine . |
| 30 | This is a two-man job of work since you need one to hold the ferret securely while the other ties the knots . |