Example sentences of "that [indef pn] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that everyone has something in common with the rest of the group and it leads to a more relaxed and productive social activity . |
| 2 | It hardly ever happened that someone said something she identified with . |
| 3 | He apparently believes that the construction ‘ to recommend that someone does something ’ is more correct than ‘ to recommend that someone do something ’ . |
| 4 | Her letter — her distress call — begged that someone do something quickly . |
| 5 | He apparently believes that the construction ‘ to recommend that someone does something ’ is more correct than ‘ to recommend that someone do something ’ . |
| 6 | So A is suggesting that someone do something on Thursday . |
| 7 | ‘ I think , ’ answered Karen , ‘ that someone put something radioactive into my bag last night before I left the factory . |
| 8 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 9 | After watching the eye movements of subjects during REM sleep , and then obtaining reports from them of intense visual imagery , it seems only natural to assume that one has something to do with the other . |
| 10 | These are people who believe that everybody has something to say , and who find the idea of consensus rather boring . |