Example sentences of "[verb] something [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have to stop him doing one thing , provide something else to interest and occupy him . |
| 2 | I write as chairman of Connoisseurs Scotland , the association of top Scottish hotels whose members provide something close to half a million bed-nights a year . |
| 3 | That 's why you should do something now to actually avoid those financial consequences . |
| 4 | That 's why you should do something now to actually avoid those financial consequences . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 7 | I intended to have said something else to her . |
| 8 | In the passage above , she makes clear that she is not interested in conventional love poetry , but in describing something closer to her actual way of life . |
| 9 | ‘ Could you … could you possibly deliver something else to him ? ’ |
| 10 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 11 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 12 | Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total . |
| 13 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 14 | The fact that I might choose to play something pretty much as a rhythm part one night will suggest something musically to these guys . |
| 15 | The man stayed under the cow long enough to milk three , at times saying something angrily to himself . |
| 16 | It would indeed take something close to theological commitment to think otherwise . |
| 17 | Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification . |
| 18 | While ( 104 ) does seem to imply something close to " feel " , in the other three cases know merely evokes what allowed the " knowers " in question to identify the things or persons known as stolen , deaf , or clouds . |
| 19 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 20 | If they do not match your specific interests , take a look at a good shareware catalogue to see if it can offer something closer to your heart . |
| 21 | After all , by conforming with the prejudices of many voters , it must offer something close to a ‘ dream ’ economic platform for the politicians . |
| 22 | It is about time that the Government said something publicly to the psychopaths who run American foreign policy , with a view to achieving change . |
| 23 | He knocked on a door , said something quietly to the person who opened it , then walked upstairs . |
| 24 | I have a suspicion , too , that we ow something else to Rheinberger : his Eighth Organ Sonata in E minor , appeared in 1882 , two years before Brahms 's Fourth Symphony ( also in E minor ) . |
| 25 | The question eludes a convincing answer ; yet the intuition persists that behind its lyric grace , its elegant melancholia , " Diffugere nives " conceals something close to a political statement of disillusion and regret . |
| 26 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 27 | This provides something closer to historical Marxism , although it does mean that he quickly becomes involved in assumptions about rationality and intentionality , and has to propose a ‘ principle of Humanity ’ , that is a common human nature , to hold them all together . |