Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they they might do that but then er if you can be selective in other words I mean if they 've got competition and the competition 's advertising they 've got to come come to terms with that . |
| 2 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 3 | We will be printing a new cumulative index to help research into back issues of Women 's Art and some educational ‘ fact packs ’ . |
| 4 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said the cousins got some friends to help knock through an internal wall between the sitting room and kitchen of Crook 's flat . |
| 5 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 6 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 7 | THE Clinton administration is considering loan guarantees and tax relief to help shore up the ailing US airline industry , as well as lifting restrictions on foreign ownership , the New York Times reported yesterday . |
| 8 | However , the fact that the child has language difficulties is probably a good indication that exposure to the kinds of language which enable most children to learn will not be sufficient to enable this child to make progress ; she may require adult input which is specially tailored to help compensate for particular areas of weakness . |
| 9 | The LF control raises or lowers the level below around 160Hz over a range of +4 to -6dB , making the sound correspondingly fuller or thinner ; the HF offers a similar shaping above 1kHz to help compensate for dull ( overly absorptive ) or bright ( highly reflective ) rooms . |
| 10 | Other grants made by the leisure sub-committee were : Steven Duffy , 13 , of Suffield Street , St Hilda 's , £150 for boxing strip and equipment ; Geoffrey Mullins , 38 , of Baldoon Sands , Acklam , £150 to help qualify as a senior athletics coach ; St Margaret 's Carpet Bowls Club , Brookfield , £477 to buy equipment ; Linthorpe Community Art Group , Linthorpe Community Centre , £200 for materials and equipment and Northern Sinfonia Orchestra , £250 , to help with concert expenses . |
| 11 | A trainee psychologist , played by Lambert 's wife , Diane Lane , is drafted in to help track down the real killer and — you guessed it — takes a more than passing professional interest in Sanderson . |
| 12 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 13 | Such was the sense of shock and disgust that a number of RUC officers offered to work on their days off and without pay to help track down the killer . |
| 14 | They 've developed a method to help putt by pulling back the club every inch for every foot . |
| 15 | As he told Wolf he saw the mission 's task ‘ as one of formulating a constructive program of aid to help prevent in Southeast Asia a repetition of the circumstances leading to the fall of China ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ But I thought you were more than happy to help clear up the unfortunate Billy 's death . |
| 17 | The chief executive of Gwynedd County Council , Huw V Thomas , who is acting as co-ordinator following the flood damage in the Aberconwy area , last night praised the 50 Army personnel for the work they put in during the day to help clear up the mess in the Morfa Conwy and Llandudno Junction areas . |
| 18 | ‘ Such is the progress made that they are now ready to move on to Llandudno to help clear up the mess in various houses there , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 19 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 20 | Is there any way you can get a day off school to help look for him ? |
| 21 | I went out to help look for my Uncle Joe before I was a year old , ’ she said , proudly . |
| 22 | For older people at home , voluntary organisations such as Age Concern may provide a wide range of services and activities , both to help look after older people with care needs , and to provide day centres , for example , where people may meet others with similar needs or interests . |
| 23 | How can we , wanting to help look after bereaved people , be particularly aware of the needs of the very elderly or the very young , when they are coping with the impact of death and grieving on their lives . |
| 24 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |
| 25 | Two hundred and fifty children were moved to St Felix 's Girls School in Southwold , where the staff gave up their holiday to help look after their guests . |
| 26 | To help look after your new perm use shampoos , conditioners and styling products with special ‘ permed hair or chemically treated formulations ’ . |
| 27 | Nina herself retired early , to help look after her grandson . |
| 28 | And , indeed , she was more than anxious to do what she could to help look after the twins . |
| 29 | Keith 's immediate future is secure while he has his parents to help look after him . |
| 30 | The court expressed dismay that Wiltshire Social Services had called in a voluntary agency — the NSPCC — to help look after him . |