Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , I 'm about to suggest something that would simplify matters . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 12 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
| 13 | I was aching to say something that would help her . |
| 14 | Claire saw his hands clench and thought , ‘ Oh , poor Frank , he 's trying to say something that will make Daddy cross . ’ |
| 15 | Before , the highest pinnacle of achievement would have been to make something that would change the world . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , I was happy to make something that would let people outside know exactly what is happening in our country . ’ |