Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is always room for more and the Managing Director of the Resource Centre , Sr Anna Doherty would like to hear from any individuals , groups , clubs or organisations interested in organising an event or contributing anything to the general fun of the weekend . |
| 2 | NEVER write on the will itself , or attach anything to it ( even with a paper clip ) as this could affect its validity in the future . |
| 3 | Or repainted it or redone anything to it . |
| 4 | It 's called the Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre , it 's actually based at Chorley or Charley if you come from that neck of the woods and er everybody that goes will be able to use the lagoon swimming pool er or challenge someone to a game of squash on one of our six courts . |
| 5 | A quota is established by dividing the total number of valid votes by the number of members to be elected plus one , and rounding up or adding one to the quotient . |
| 6 | But these two books do not contain new scientific or technical information or add anything to existing knowledge of the environment and medical consequences of Chernobyl . |
| 7 | When comparing engine powers , make sure all are measured by the same system or convert one to another ( imp hp × 1.014 = metric hp or ps ; imp hp × 0.746 = kW ; ps × 0.736 = kW ) . |
| 8 | They 're doing it up , or doing something to it . |
| 9 | The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm . |
| 10 | You can put down the concrete base and build the kit garage yourself ; lay the base but let the garage manufacturer build it ; or leave everything to him . |
| 11 | Then another command : ‘ Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him ; for now I know that you fear God , seeing you have not withheld your son , your only son , from me . ’ |
| 12 | Erm here I 've got some formulae calculating production figures er we 've got different quarters formulae found are somewhat similar er there 's a so that I can copy one to any of the other adjacent cells outside will work I do n't have to edit the formula or do anything to it soon as I copy it , it 's alright for that cell . |
| 13 | Try never to do or say anything to a teacher ( or about a teacher ) that you would not like done or said to you . |
| 14 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 15 | The first thing you 've go to do is you 've got to provide services that mean something to everyone at work . |
| 16 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 17 | Marlene McGee is pioneering work with Suffolk County Council : Jane Fisk is selling Medau gummed stamps that urge everyone to ‘ Try Medau — Keep Fit ’ : £150 was raised for the ‘ BIG C ’ appeal ( Norfolk 's cancer research charity ) at a Medau ‘ Get-Together ’ organised by Ruth Rolph : Kay Baxter organised a successful jumble sale in aid of Society funds . |
| 18 | At length , Boeing conceded the point , leaving Bob Wilson to lament that ‘ it was easier to sell a fleet of aircraft to United Airlines , than to sell one to Virgin . ’ |
| 19 | accept the counter-examples and alter the tripartite analysis to suit rather than adding anything to it . |
| 20 | She was still on a ‘ high ’ , the potent adrenalin pumping through her veins , eyes sparkling , cheeks glowing with a becoming flush that owed nothing to the skilfully applied make-up . |
| 21 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 22 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 23 | Berkeley , nevertheless , thought that to concede anything to materialism was to concede too much , and that any element of materialism inevitably led to scepticism and atheism . |
| 24 | Because our conscious memories are selective , because we remember stories that meant something to us , that spoke to us , your answer will reveal to you a great deal about the way you used stories when you were a child . |
| 25 | Constance frequently reiterated that she would never buy anything that had belonged to somebody else , that meant something to them , that had been warm against their skin or over the fireplace : only brand-new articles , the stuff of commerce in transit between factory and store , the owners of which already had more money than was good for them and were themselves no better than they should be . |
| 26 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 27 | Others were obscure , yet-to-come images that meant nothing to her . |
| 28 | And that meant everything to him … |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the only oracle I 've ever read that meant anything to me . ’ |
| 30 | In retrospect she says the most important thing is for parents to build in some kind of motivation or prospect that means something to their offspring . |