Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has n't he ever let slip any little hint about who it might have been ? ’ |
| 2 | George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster . |
| 3 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 4 | exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there |
| 5 | The figures show what considerable sums were made form these . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't dared make any ! ’ she responded sarcastically . |
| 7 | Belonging to such a close community helped assuage some of the loneliness Eva could have felt so far from her own close-knit family . |
| 8 | No-one , neither from the Presbyterian side nor the Episcopalian , dared answer this proposal until Richard Baxter broke the silence by suggesting that Roman Catholics and Socinians be exempted from this liberty . |
| 9 | There is a strong tradition that it is bad luck to disturb a standing stone or stone circle and fear of retribution has undoubtedly helped preserve many that might otherwise have been removed for building stone , gateposts and the like . |
| 10 | Heavy overnight rain has helped swell some rivers … but elsewhere the flooding seems to have peaked , and forecasters say the worst is over … at least for now . |
| 11 | This helped formulate some of the 600 questions and devise a reply scoring system . |
| 12 | He had never dared do more than imagine it while Brückner was alive . |
| 13 | Amnesty 's major Sri Lanka ( September-December 1990 ) succeeded , against considerable obstacles , in bringing the tragedy of Sri Lanka to the attention of the world , and helped generate some fresh signs of change . |
| 14 | Freddie 's best known song has helped do that . ’ |
| 15 | My boasts that our school was an open school run on democratic lines with no special privileges took no account of the reality that my car was always parked closest to the door and that no one else dared use that space ! |
| 16 | The thrifts ' eagerness to buy helped keep that spread down . |
| 17 | Anarchist risings in January 1932 , January 1933 and December 1933 , while highly regionalized and easily suppressed , provided evidence of the Republic 's failure to embrace a large part of the Spanish lower class and at the same time helped convince many middle-class Spaniards that Republican democracy was the breeding ground of disorder and revolution . |
| 18 | He took Bobby back to his digs , paid off the rent owed to the landlady , and helped remove all his belongings to Apollo Place . |
| 19 | Andrew Stuart charts the Tory party policy that has helped create this situation . |
| 20 | He informed the Sheriffs of his planned meeting , and helped lay another trap to make the final arrests . |
| 21 | The speaker 's ambiguous pronouns , shifting their referents , helped foster this feeling of harmonious identity . |
| 22 | At this point I would like to stress that the tank was overstocked but the number of water changes I made helped avoid any problems . |
| 23 | There was no way we would have dared attempt these routes had they sported their current designations then . |
| 24 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 25 | Possibly the widening class-consciousness of militant trade unionism within the Edwardian working class , especially considering the number of players from mining origins , may also have helped encourage this flurry of ‘ industrial ’ action . |
| 26 | The exchange 's members helped encourage this backwater , however . |
| 27 | But the quality of the soil has helped protect this part of the past for present day archeologists to observe . |
| 28 | But the quality of the soil has helped protect this part of the past for present day archeologists to observe . |
| 29 | The cruel killings of real or imagined collaborators have helped restore this image , yet who has forgotten that Jews executed traitors during their own struggle for national liberation ? |
| 30 | The cruel killings of real or imagined collaborators have helped restore this image , yet who has forgotten that Jews executed traitors during their own struggle for national liberation ? |