Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 2 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 3 | Examiner do n't think think so , do they ? |
| 4 | Some woman doth fall out bitterly with her neighbour ; there followeth some great hurt … . |
| 5 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 6 | Out of season they helped build up local defences by filling sandbags . |
| 7 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 8 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 9 | With still not loosing site of the idea of having a cafe , bar , coffee for people , one of the things that were , that gon na look through and explore explore actually is er setting up some kind of coffee bar facilities at Kingsmoor , the play barn , there next to them . |
| 10 | just like the ones we used to know know know know where the treetops glisten glisten |
| 11 | We can dry dry now , I just leave it , I leave both doors shut and it keeps kitchen warm . |
| 12 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 13 | Chair , we do class as unsatisfactory those samples that the laboratory would covers do n't reach certain standards , whatever the standard may be , and that 's why we concentrate on that figure that the bathing unsatisfactory at one particular pool , where there was a serious problem . |
| 14 | Her ‘ Tale of two orphans ’ focuses on two young African elephants — Ndume and Malaika — who she helped bring up when they were brought to Daphne Sheldrick 's sanctuary following the massacre of the rest of their herd by poachers . |
| 15 | The most noteworthy — established in 1953 and inspired by the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress — was the Spark , which helped bring together Indian , African , coloured and white opposition to apartheid . |
| 16 | The Local Government union NALGO calls it an infamous act of betrayal to Jamie Robertson , who helped bring in thousands of new jobs to the area following the closure of the railway works in the mid nineteen eightees . |
| 17 | ( And it was that lack of hits which probably helped bring about the suicides . ) |
| 18 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 19 | Among the book 's central allegations were claims that Mossad had ( i ) failed to inform the United States of prior intelligence concerning the October 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine battalion headquarters in Beirut , the Lebanese capital [ see pp. 32646-47 ] ; ( ii ) established a secret spy network ( " A1 " ) in the USA ; ( iii ) helped bring about the dismissal of Andrew Young from his post of US representative at the UN in 1979 after secretly recording Young 's clandestine meetings with PLO officials [ see p. 29956 ] ; and ( iv ) caused the downfall of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in 1977 by exposing his wife 's illegal foreign currency bank account [ see p. 28533 ] . |
| 20 | And in November at the council he let see how much trust he was ever again likely to put in the little law-givers at Westminster . |
| 21 | Or not been let run up against them ) , and then the " ungrammaticality " of *John was seen leave is explained by the absence of to . |
| 22 | A management group of specialists ( including representatives of the Countryside Council for Wales , Dyfed Wildlife Trust , Otter Project Wales and RSPB Wales ) helped draw up the initial conservation plan and now guides all aspects of the management and monitoring programme . |
| 23 | There 's an appetite for Mould , which helped sell out his two recent London shows with ease . |
| 24 | When I was left at school I was savage at not being let go home ; and when I went home , my mother did nothing but find fault with my schoolboy manners . |
| 25 | He let go then of every dignity but the dignity of defiance , and fought like a wild-cat , lashing and struggling and biting , wearing himself out uselessly in an effort that could gain him nothing . |
| 26 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 27 | It 's sure to come come on then Gal |
| 28 | During July , the entire area paid lasting tribute to an aircraft that helped open up not just this town , but hundreds like it all over Canada . |
| 29 | Big earners like John Barnes , Dean Saunders , Mark Wright , Ian Rush and Michael Thomas helped push up salaries by £2.2m . |
| 30 | After a dip caused by the 1981–83 recession , the publication of a definitive catalogue by Hans Nadelhofer helped push up prices , and by 1985 a the third ‘ Portico ’ mystery clock ( from an edition of six ) achieved a new world record of $400,000 for a Cartier piece . |