Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the purpose of this double arrangement is to try and arrange something of advantage to both parties erm |
| 2 | I mean it 's In actual fact the the number of people I 've had in and One thing I should say , if you feel you would like a visit one evening , to the plant , then I 'm more than welcome to try and organize something for you . |
| 3 | ‘ The idea is we are going to try and do something with his hands to see if we can give him some form of grip . ’ |
| 4 | In the end I decided to try and do something about it . |
| 5 | Once he was on the mend , we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg . |
| 6 | We ca n't just ignore it erm it is proper planning to try and do something about it . |
| 7 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 8 | ‘ It seems a shame not to try and do something for him after he 's sent a letter all that way . ’ |
| 9 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 10 | Such a visit should involve talking to personnel to try and understand something of their jobs and to work out how best to tell the story in visual form . |
| 11 | And that would give you a bit of ready cash , and also it would give you a standing to try and get something from Finance Committee . |
| 12 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 13 | Are you going to come and do something about it or not ? ’ |
| 14 | Everyone wants to be able to design and create something with an individual touch , whether it 's an outfit to wear or soft furnishings for the home . |
| 15 | She was a wreck and had planned to go and do something about it once dinner had been prepared , but now that would have to go by the board — there would be no time — and , besides , she could hardly appear to Luke 's business partner and his wife in one of Luke 's towelling robes , could she ? |
| 16 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 17 | And it 's no good moaning , so has to go and do something about it , |
| 18 | I want you to go and do something for me . ’ |
| 19 | to go and do something in Dundee , so they 've advertised his job |
| 20 | Do you want me to go and get something from cos it 's cheaper . |
| 21 | Freud 's example of the fort-da game in which the child pretends to lose and find something as an enactment within a domain it can control , of its sense of separation from , and the return of the mother , provides a classic case of the problems of how to interpret vicarious activity . |
| 22 | Once you decide to specialize and become something of an expert in any field , you can study through public libraries , further education classes ( providing that there is adequate provision for speechreaders ) , correspondence courses , exhibitions and so on . |
| 23 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 24 | Mr Healey said : ‘ Tout passe ; tout casse ; tout lasse , ’ which I dare to translate as meaning something like ‘ All is Vanity ’ , and then , to end the conversation , he half-sang a little , final , syncopated drumroll , which went something like this : ‘ Da da de da di DUM . ’ |
| 25 | He expected his father to rise and say something about that being no way to speak to one 's wife or not in front of the child , he was capable of that . |