Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a heavy Tesco bag to help batter her way through the TV crews and a gaggle of amused onlookers , she reached the National Westminster Bank just after water privatisation 's witching hour of 10am . |
| 2 | His exposing of the inanity and hideousness for his own time of the rites which underlay Sweeney Agonistes only helped confirm his choice of the only religion whose rituals seemed open and potent to him . |
| 3 | He had never dreamed that his enemy would dare show his face in the army , and Lord John 's presence seemed evidence to Sharpe of just how the cavalryman must despise him . |
| 4 | Judge Smith formerly chairman of the Rules Committee was a man greatly feared by his colleagues , but no chairman would dare follow his example in the congress of today . |
| 5 | The firm of solicitors , Shindler , has formed an environmental law unit to help steer its clients through the maze of environmental regulations . |
| 6 | And whatever happens in the Ulster championship , Mark is hoping to help steer his club to the Armagh county title this year . |
| 7 | Your words helped sustain my defences in the aftermath of Matthew Sura 's vicious and slovenly attack , from which , I fear , I am still rather reeling . |
| 8 | The ambiguity of Jacques Chirac 's attitude to the National Front helped destroy his bid for the Presidency last year , and with it the credibility of the opposition to President Mitterrand . |
| 9 | This , combined with widespread reproduction , helped maintain his position within the field of commercial art . |
| 10 | Polly did n't dare take her eyes off the compass . |
| 11 | I 've helped develop his department into the best collections department in Britain , as far as the the banks are concerned |
| 12 | ‘ I really believe rugby helped mould my character into the man I am today . |
| 13 | No player not appearing in that particular game dared put his face round the door . |
| 14 | Many depend upon it to help implement their action for the environment . |
| 15 | As he told the NSS last year , ‘ All the great reformers and responsible people did n't dare pop their heads above the parapet when I was saying , ‘ Let's junk some of the rubbish , let's talk , let's get some real debate back . ' |
| 16 | But he knew his position was safe , that no one dared challenge his seat on the Politburo . |
| 17 | During the previous summer , Coleman had acted as technical adviser to the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) and helped train its officers in the use of communications , surveillance and other electronic gear paid for by the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) . |
| 18 | Legal organizations , to be effective in attaining their mandate , have to transmit their policies to and make secure their control over the enforcement agent in the field . |
| 19 | But I felt at home ; and I made a splendid collection of Italian cafe napkins , their corners printed with emblems of the past glory of Ninfania : the Cupid stringing his bow to let fly his darts from the prow in the cafe of the old harbour , and a selection — even I was defeated by the variety — of ice cream wrappers : ‘ Cooky Delight ’ and ‘ Bikini Manhattan ’ and ‘ Magnum Astoria ’ and ‘ Desiree ’ , ‘ Party Craze ’ and ‘ Magic Cola ’ , ‘ Oasis ’ and ‘ Grand Carre ’ , ‘ Card Game ’ and ‘ Tiffany ’ . |
| 20 | It helps explain his fixation on the details of other people 's erotic lives , the keyhole stuff that filled his files , the anger — envy , perhaps — which made him project homosexuality onto all manner of public figures . |
| 21 | In order to further develop our services to the Agrochemical Industry we wish to create two appointments at Section Manager level . |
| 22 | I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin . |
| 23 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 24 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 25 | The superintendent 's report asserted that though prostitutes did ply their calling on the common they conducted themselves in an orderly manner , as did large numbers of respectable , well-dressed courting couples who ‘ roamed about the place after dark caressing each other ’ . |
| 26 | Weber did qualify his emphasis on the coercive methods through which the state maintains order and compliance , ‘ force is certainly not the normal or only means of the state ’ ( Weber 1972 p.78 ) . |
| 27 | So , too , was runner-up Chris Platts , who shot a fine final round 68 to finish two shots clear of David Jones , Roger Winchester — who did win his card at the Qualifying School — and local player S. Okpe . |
| 28 | Suppose she did carry his photo with the horse , not Fiona 's , who 's the owner , after all . |
| 29 | Instead there operates a rebuttable presumption that the defendant did base his trades on the information in his possession . |
| 30 | Hodgkinson 's World Cup role may have been depressingly brief and , if it was far from what he wanted , the way the tournament worked out did ensure his arrival at the top of the world kicker 's table . |