Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHESTER Tory MP , author and television personality Gyles Brandreth was helping explain Europe to the people yesterday . |
| 2 | De Klerk dismissed suggestions that he ca n't control his security forces by pointing out that he appointed 10,000 police officers last year , and claims that the new influx will go a long way in helping subdue township unrest . |
| 3 | IBM Corp is planning to introduce new technology that is intended to increase the input-output transfer rate of the RS/6000 , helping eliminate bottlenecks between the microprocessor and disk drive . |
| 4 | Both countries had been over-producing against their OPEC quotas for some time , helping depress prices gradually and giving rise to familiar bouts of recrimination between them and other member states with higher absorptive capacities for revenues . |
| 5 | It 's sometimes not obvious what mistakes you 've made in English , it 's pretty obvious to Vicky and myself when we make duff scones . |
| 6 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 7 | Although he helped make development a causal science his theories were largely wrong ; even so , his preformationist ideas , in which nuclear determinants were unequally distributed during cleavage did stimulate the key experiments . |
| 8 | The duchess , who helped make Bea 's purple robes , will be there to watch , and Prince Andrew is also expected to go . |
| 9 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 10 | All the neighbours have seen us clip clip clop down the path . |
| 11 | A riot in Skopje in November helped concentrate minds . |
| 12 | Where it did occur , it helped improve project design and correct local misconceptions of investments and their impact , " the report says . |
| 13 | Warne 's eight wickets at Old Trafford helped send England plunging towards defeat while lifting his overall haul to 39 . |
| 14 | FECCAS had formed a branch there and she helped organize women coffee harvesters . |
| 15 | TED CROKER , who helped bring football into the modern era , died yesterday aged 68 . |
| 16 | During the war the Cubist concept of the work of art as an autonomous , constructed object became more and more widespread and was to have a profound effect on the emergence of Purism , one of the pictorial styles to which Cubism helped give birth . |
| 17 | If liberalism was a spent political force in Britain by 1930 , the kind of social survey to which it helped give rise was not . |
| 18 | AS one of the many who helped defend Malta when the island was under siege in World War II , I was interested to read ( Echo March 19 ) that the Maltese Government is keen to issue medals to those involved to mark the 50th anniversary of the award of the G.C. to the island . |
| 19 | The 12-pounder exposed on a turntable mounting , the mortars and the oerlikons all fired at the flashes of German guns , as did the commandos in the MLs , firing brens in a pre-arranged fire-plan that helped conserve ammunition . |
| 20 | Scientists at the EPA , who helped analyse samples of sediment from the Farallon Islands say the public has over-reacted to findings of radioactivity there that were 200 times background levels . |
| 21 | In Australia , he rewrote the history books in a display not seen since the days of Jim Clark and Graham Hill — they helped revolutionise Indycar racing with their rear-engined Lotus Fords — when he started from pole position , won the race and smashed the lap record in his debut race . |
| 22 | The nucleus of workers who helped transform Carno Railway Station into one of the world 's most efficient textile printing plants considered themselves from the beginning as part of an extended family . |
| 23 | Current Wales scrum-half Jones helped inspire Heineken League champions Swansea to a 14-7 victory in front of Wales coach Alan Davies , who tomorrow names his team to face Italy on October 7 . |
| 24 | A LORRY driver who helped take aid to refugees in Croatia was yesterday named Britain 's Top Dad . |
| 25 | An airman who helped destroy evidence after a twenty million pound arson attack has been fined fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 26 | At the same time , he helped develop Matra Engins , of which he became vice-president in 1957 , into the highly profitable defence , telecommunications and aeronautics firm , Matra . |
| 27 | Derry-born Professor Eddie Friel , who helped encourage Glasgow 's designation in 1990 as European City of Culture , has now been invited by Derry City Council to employ his award-winning strategy in his native city . |
| 28 | He let go Lee 's arm and Lee ran down to the ride . |
| 29 | Her one fixation was fitness and she kept herself in peak physical condition by attending aerobic classes three times a week at the Rivereast Health Club on Second Avenue , where she also helped put housewives through their paces in the basic skills of karate . |
| 30 | BUMPER nine-month figures at drugs group Medeva helped add sparkle to its shares yesterday , climbing slowly towards its high of 301p earlier this year . |