Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or do you want me to wreak havoc on the supper tables ? ’ |
| 2 | She did n't want me to get work at the colliery , and she had cousins in Limehouse — the Williamses , in Three Colt Street . ’ |
| 3 | Encourage regular visits to the lavatory , help the person take their mind off their depression by encouraging them to take part in the activities of the Home . |
| 4 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 5 | The way to change the situation is by harnessing staff expertise and encouraging them to become part of the process of customer service . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’ |
| 7 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 8 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 9 | For example , drama contributes to personal growth , by enabling pupils to express their emotions and by helping them to make sense of the world , and to prepare for adult life through such activities as the simulation of meetings . |
| 10 | Parents are extremely keen to have their children admitted to the college because they want them to take advantage of the excellent education that it offers . |
| 11 | The main effect of the 1992 programme may well turn out to be psychological , that is to turn the attention of producers from the EC , and other developed economies , towards the European market and to encourage them to gather information on the markets of Europe . |
| 12 | They invited me to take part in the next one and I went along with them , having no idea what I was getting in to . |
| 13 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 14 | Just on item eight and item nine , Lord Mayor , Community Health N H S Trust and Health N H S Trust , to report the fact that dispensations from the Department of the Environment have rec been received for Councillors and , enabling them to take part in the debate but er not to vote . |
| 15 | ‘ We are trying to position ourselves to take advantage of the next break in the weather . ’ |
| 16 | It 's part of a £40,000 prize bonanza to encourage you to take part in the seventh annual Daily Mirror British Video Awards . |
| 17 | We urge you to suspend censorship of the media and refrain from all other repressive measures that inhibit the free flow of information and the practice of independent journalism . |
| 18 | It reached almost unbroken from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Natufian , enabling her to impose order on the hitherto incoherent archaeology of the Levant ( D. Garrod and D. M. A. Bate , The Stone Age of Mount Carmel , 1937 ) . |
| 19 | Always generous , he invited her to drink coffee in the evening and she never saw him drunk . |
| 20 | BELOW : Rob Whallan — this Tailside won the vote of the judges , enabling him to win victory during the World Baseball Invitational . |
| 21 | What he had learnt in the Borinage was that human suffering of the most basic sort somehow activated his creative energies , as well as enabling him to gain access to the depths of his own nature . |
| 22 | He attended schools in Bishop Auckland , Gainford , and Glasgow , after which his family connections helped him to gain entry to the music-hall , as a ‘ boy ’ comedian . |
| 23 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 24 | You want us to lie east of the forest with the fire in our faces and cut off Siward if he tries to make his escape . |
| 25 | We have er framed them to take account of the most recent information available , subject to limitations that staff time limits causes . |
| 26 | Each of those subjects is , in fact , a willing volunteer and is an extrovert by nature , and so allows himself to become part of the entertainment . |
| 27 | She steeled herself to remain calm in the face of his baiting . |
| 28 | But England are sticking by the dashing 22-year-old with a self-destruct button , and will probably send him to learn self-control in the hard school of Australia . |
| 29 | To the extent the seller uses it to manufacture stock for the buyer ahead of any orders he does so at his own risk . |
| 30 | The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse . |