Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 3 | Let me answer the second question first . |
| 4 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 5 | It certainly makes me regard the next car commercial with a new pair of eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
| 7 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 8 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 9 | But there 's nothing wrong with challenging people on a personal level and letting them make the choices … ’ |
| 10 | However fast and unpredictable the changes to their world , this resourcefulness will help them make the best of it . |
| 11 | Our aim is to help them make the right purchase by giving them all the information they need . |
| 12 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 13 | And the council 's housing department is asking tenants thinking of moving on to help them make the most of the housing stock by giving early notice when they intend to leave . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll ring Mr Pritchard to fetch me in the morning if you 'll just let me stay the night . ’ |
| 15 | CAN ANYBODY be expected to take the Deputy Director of Wirral Social Services seriously when he suggests that feeding curry to toddlers will help them counteract the evils of racism ? |
| 16 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 17 | But let me make the point here that separatism and man-hating are different things . |
| 18 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 19 | ‘ Fred lets me make the decisions , an' it was my idea ter sort this back room out . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll let me make the cakes ? ’ |
| 21 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 22 | Let me make the position absolutely clear to the House . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I 'll let you make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ bodies , ’ said Gurder , his voice just one step away from being threatening , ‘ and you 'll let me make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ souls . |
| 24 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 25 | Makes me think the things I 'm saying are very clever . |
| 26 | I smiled and her eyes smiled back enough to make me think the ice could just possibly melt there under the right circumstances . |
| 27 | Er let me think the er er that 's twenty one pounds a month . |
| 28 | We will ensure that all 14–19 year olds have a personal tutor and careers advice , helping them build the foundations for personal fulfilment and success . |
| 29 | They went ahead and applied to Hesel Heseltine , who agreed to let them build the power station . |
| 30 | A five-metre scrum in the closing minutes saw them splinter the Quins pack for Charles to touch down . |