Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FATHER whose son was killed in a road accident has helped set up a support network in the North West for the families of other victims . |
| 2 | IN A CHANGE of policy designed to help bring about a ceasefire in Angola , John Major , the Foreign Secretary , will today hold talks with Jonas Savimbi , the leader of the Unita rebels , writes John Bulloch . |
| 3 | If you want to avoid channelling out a wall , but would like to replace a single outlet with a double outlet , which can be a switched one , and will sit over the old position . |
| 4 | These are the terms implied in a contract where the supplier has agreed to carry out a service ( paragraph 8–09 above ) . |
| 5 | The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has proposed setting up a system by which " permits to pollute " with sulphur dioxide ( SO2 ) could be traded among industrial plants . |
| 6 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 7 | Since replacing the former prime minister , Bob Hawke , in an inter-party challenge 14 months ago , Mr Keating has pledged to set up a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic , with an Australian head of state , by 2001 . |
| 8 | The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own . |
| 9 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 10 | THE UFF has admitted carrying out a bomb attack on the home of a Roman Catholic family in south Belfast . |
| 11 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 12 | An aerospace company will hear tomorrow whether it has managed to fight off a takeover bid . |
| 13 | We agreed that much work is still to be done to help bring about a change of heart within our Churches . |
| 14 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 15 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 16 | This was a memorandum that seemed to have taken on a life of its own : now here , now there , now one , now several , now alone , now gone , now lurking . |
| 17 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 18 | The fawn was badly injured trying to jump over a wire fence , and had to be operated on to save her life . |
| 19 | Before she 'd begun to swing up a knee into his groin he jerked her towards him . |
| 20 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 21 | It goes on to explain how audiovisual media , and video in particular , can be used to help bring about a process of change in people 's lives . |
| 22 | The cash will be used to help set up a family action centre on the estate and give young people the opportunity to improve their future . |
| 23 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 24 | The hospital would have to make choices : ‘ We are going to have to weigh up a hip replacement against a breast carcinoma . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We are a bit thin on the ground for central defenders and we 're going to have to look around a bit . |
| 26 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
| 27 | Bristol City winger Junior Bent has turned down a loan move to Plymouth . |
| 28 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 29 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 30 | I do n't think he 'd have wanted to jump off a cliff or anything , but I think it bothered him — you know , the weight gain and things like that . ’ |