Example sentences of "something [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are so many bite indicators for use when legering you would think there was something extremely complicated to the simple action of a fish pulling on the line . |
| 2 | You could easily find something better suited to your talents — become a Member of Parliament , or something . |
| 3 | I began thus for to assent both to them and diverse of my friends here at home and not less to an inward prompting which daily now grew upon me , that by labour and intent study , which I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die . ’ |
| 4 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 5 | Conflict over designation is symptomatic of something already referred to in this chapter — the transformation of the city from a locale of production to one of consumption-reproduction . |
| 6 | There may in this adoption of French terms be some covert assumption that postmodernist writing , like cooking — or rather cuisine — is something best left to the French . |
| 7 | And the market researchers tell the companies more and more that their customers want something more tailored to their special requirements . |
| 8 | Will he and our right hon. and hon. Friends , over the next few weeks , consider whether there is scope for increasing that discount to something more related to the ability to pay of the single person ? |
| 9 | The director had probably taken a room for her there tonight assuming she 'd look for something more suited to her purse in her own time . |
| 10 | In what follows , we shall narrow the scope of the term to something more adapted to the present purpose . |
| 11 | Charles felt something more needed to be said . |
| 12 | Something more needed to be said , obviously . |
| 13 | But something still had to be done about the EDC and its ratification . |
| 14 | Something clearly had to be done , and done quickly , for the ramparts were now diminishing at a steady rate the longer the rain lasted , the more quickly the ramparts melted . |
| 15 | Something clearly had to be done . |
| 16 | In Goldring 's case , the customer had done something clearly conveying to the finance company that he did not own the van and that so far as he was concerned the seller ( the trader ) had every right to sell it . |
| 17 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 18 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 19 | Something really needs to be done . |
| 20 | The TARDIS walls , fashioned in a style that would nowadays be called ‘ hi-tech ’ , were also revolutionary for their era and were deliberately styled to give a timeless look ; something equally suited to ancient Egypt as to the distant future . |
| 21 | I mean perhaps it 's not something there used to doing too much , but is it not possible to get them to amuse themselves ? |
| 22 | If the speaker is lying , for instance , it may be that what caused his utterance was something quite opposed to belief in what he meant to say , or a favourable attitude towards what his utterance was meant to commend . |
| 23 | Arriving at Agheila they discovered that all the aircraft based there left at night , so something else had to be improvised . |
| 24 | So , this was something else to add to the list of things that Guido cared about . |
| 25 | Should you pay more for the rock — especially if there is something else attached to the rock , other than your intended purchase ? |
| 26 | And then , as something else occurred to him , ‘ Was that , then , the only time that twins had ever been born to the Wolfline ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 28 | Something else occurred to Sally-Anne . |
| 29 | Does something else have to be sacrificed , and if so , what ? |
| 30 | ‘ Something closely related to English food ? ’ he suggested . |