Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense . |
| 2 | This encourages them to listen to the responses and to each other . |
| 3 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 4 | Or do you want me to go through the Valve at Firstlight speed ? ’ |
| 5 | Well do you want me to go in the cellar see what we 've got ? |
| 6 | Now , do you want me to turn on the fire for you ? |
| 7 | if there 's nothing you want recording what do you want me to do with the dinner ? |
| 8 | So he does n't want me to talk about the Hound . |
| 9 | ‘ You sure you do n't want me to check with the restaurant again before I go , señora ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do you want me to walk round the farm ? ’ she asked , alarmed . |
| 11 | ‘ Bob , ’ said Tessa , when he had put the phone down again , ‘ do you want me to come to the funeral or not ? ’ |
| 12 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 13 | Highways are being split down the middle , with special ‘ car pool lanes ’ for vehicles carrying more than two passengers , allowing them to cruise past the traffic jams . |
| 14 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 15 | Is not the most practical step that he could take to help renewables to allow those people working on tide , wind , coppicing and other renewables in the Atomic Energy Authority a separate organisation free from the foolish need to produce short-term profits , allowing them to invest in the advantages of renewables , which are essentially long-term ? |
| 16 | More important , trade would tie their economies into the global market , allowing them to specialise in the things they do best , and helping governments to consolidate their economic reforms . |
| 17 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 18 | They all have structural similarities to the nucleotide building blocks of DNA ( or RNA ) , allowing them to interfere with the replication of viral genetic material . |
| 19 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
| 20 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 21 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 22 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 23 | You do n't want them to go to the police , do you ? ’ |
| 24 | We would also not want them to fall into the hands of children . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Does MacLaggan want them to charge against the muskets , and make a Culloden in Strath Tummel ? |
| 26 | I doubt if they would in this well I would n't want them to come in the fog |
| 27 | Officials did n't even want them to appear on the track as they stage-managed another two-hour show for the audience at home . |
| 28 | ‘ Unless , of course , you 'd prefer me to report to the Reichsführer that we lost this man because of your stupidity . ’ |
| 29 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 30 | The aims were to give families reproductive choice in future pregnancies ; to enable them to plan for the future with a child with a disability ; to avoid the experience of a prolonged diagnosis ; and to identify a presymptomatic cohort who may benefit from future treatments . |