Example sentences of "something [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm whether we want to add something on to the agenda that would make it more acceptable to them like health and safety or whatever . |
| 2 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 3 | Tallis could not see clearly but he seemed to be pushing something on to the staff , working it round until , with a crack , it slid into position . |
| 4 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
| 5 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 6 | Well , ten minutes later it was still up to me knees , I said , I ca n't keep this up and he shouted something down to somebody else , who shouted to somebody else , Put your sprags back lads . |
| 7 | The potential of pop is uncanny , and something not to be abused or underestimated . |
| 8 | Is there something not to your liking , madam ? ’ |
| 9 | I admired the way she strolled into the ward , doing quite determinedly something not to her taste . |
| 10 | Something not to be resisted . |
| 11 | But I must just emphasise erm next Saturday is the real biggie night here at Oxford erm something not to be missed . |
| 12 | This is something just to absolutely specific about it , which will actually arise out of the work done by the district councils in their local plans . |
| 13 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
| 14 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 15 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 16 | The meetings are only the most visible signs of a thaw in the relationship — previously something close to undeclared war — between the Yard and the Labour authorities since Sir Peter 's accession in 1987 . |
| 17 | Under his scheme they would be elected by something close to Britain 's first-past-the-post system . |
| 18 | Yet the Soviet Union is still trying to define Hungary 's security interests by insisting that it must stay neutral , or something close to that , for the treaty 's 20-year life . |
| 19 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 20 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 21 | Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo . |
| 22 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 23 | He was fumbling with something close to his left side . |
| 24 | Pity the poor student faced , last year , with something close to 2000 books that deal with psychology in some way or other . |
| 25 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 26 | Some children will be reading about something close to their own experience , close to their own emotional world . |
| 27 | He had challenged almost everything she had said and what was meant as an informative introduction to a public relations exercise had developed into something close to a public brawl . |
| 28 | This type of control works well with most 8-bit computers where the keyboard is monitored by input ports , and direct reading of each key ( or something close to it ) is possible . |
| 29 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |
| 30 | Reviewing my years in Burma , it is I hope clear how one who went out to preach a gospel also heard another gospel , a complementary one , and learned from the gentle , tolerant Buddhists of Burma something close to what the Buddha tried to teach . |