Example sentences of "[verb] something that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 2 | Now I want you to find something that will do for guns and fur caps and a saucepan for Emily to cook wolf stew in — ; |
| 3 | In the drawing the box is open at the search end and in the search we hope to find something that will fit exactly into that box . |
| 4 | But Birmingham Labour MP Robin Corbett said : ‘ The hope must be that the police have now been able to find something that will help identify the real culprits . ’ |
| 5 | In the long run we still want something that will enable us to stop the resistance completely , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Jazz wants something that will go on , like Midnight . |
| 7 | In the wind and rattle sounds I 'd hear her start to cry and put my arm around her and lift her chin and say something that would calm her . |
| 8 | Say something that will get her … interested . ’ |
| 9 | Well if you , all I was going to say is , if you 're going to get something like that , I mean we could buy something that would make a set . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
| 11 | It is Joan and Ted 's hope that even now someone may know something that can solve Brian 's murder . |
| 12 | ‘ There is nothing I can tell you , Officer , ’ said Iris in her stilted French , ‘ but my friend has something that may interest you . ’ |
| 13 | The second is to look at what visual systems do , build something that will do the same job , and then determine whether it works in the same way as a real visual system . |
| 14 | So if we can do something that may trick the would-be burglar into thinking there 's someone in , then he may well go somewhere else . |
| 15 | And also I could n't do something that might jeopardise Rob 's marriage to Heather . ’ |
| 16 | Why do n't you do something that will get you somewhere , Karim ? ’ |
| 17 | gave out she 'd seen something that might upset |
| 18 | WHEN Robert Napier bought four acres of Carntyne and added it to his Parkhead Forge , it was to create something that would become a cross between Hell and Armageddon for the thousands who worked there . |
| 19 | In fact , I 'm about to suggest something that would simplify matters . ’ |
| 20 | Then you ask how it might have come about that the murderer made that mistake , and already , when eventually you tell of this from the other end , from the discovery of the corpse , you have got something that will require a reader to make a lateral jump to see what really happened . |
| 21 | Certainly if we 'd see something that would do this afternoon , or New Drove today , that 's fine . |
| 22 | I think that the tour around the factory will be quick , but you may see something that will set your mental cogs turning again . |
| 23 | As I told Heather — But wait : you should see something that will add piquancy to a bald recital of what few facts are known . ’ |
| 24 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 25 | I hope you 've heard something that 'll make you think , and think positively and perhaps act positively . |
| 26 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You ought to do something that 'll bring some proper money in , ’ she told him , ‘ and take that stuff out the back where I 'm not forever tripping over it . ’ |
| 29 | By reversing his previous stand and meeting the Dalai Lama , Mr Bush was perhaps taking the steam out of a growing congressional effort to do something that would injure a lot more than China 's pride : the cancelling of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status . |
| 30 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |