Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courses were necessary for mainstream teachers , including headteachers , to help them cater for the multilingual population of their schools , and Heads of Modern Languages , who were often given responsibilities for South Asian languages despite the current limitations of their professional competence to foreign European languages , were a prime target for reorientation courses . |
| 2 | When world oil prices plunged in the 1980s , their leaders did little to help them adjust to the inevitable decline in living standards . |
| 3 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 4 | In order to reinforce the Cartagena Declaration , Bush stated that he would ask the US Congress to sanction increased aid to the three Andean countries for the period 1991-94 , to help them deal with the social and economic problems resulting from drug eradication programmes . |
| 5 | FOUR North Wales schoolgirls are seeking sponsorship to help them get to the British ski championships . |
| 6 | To help them get in the laughing mood . ’ |
| 7 | I am sure that Opposition Members will be delighted to hear me speak about the free market because they were in some doubt about whether it would be possible for Conservative Members to mention that . |
| 8 | In a small house , you might want to replace the bath with a shower to create more space ; in larger houses , you may be able to fit a shower unit elsewhere to help you cope with the early morning rush hour . |
| 9 | Your muscles tighten up , your heart beats faster , your blood pressure rises and your body produces extra adrenalin to help you cope with the stressful situation . |
| 10 | To help you guard against a ruined holiday , we have negotiated a comprehensive policy , which we believe represents the finest cover available . |
| 11 | But there are many more , of course , and listing playwrights is useful only insofar as it presents a few guidelines , primarily to help you look in the right places . |
| 12 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
| 13 | I loved to hear him talk about the old days . ’ |
| 14 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 15 | But pondering each may heighten awareness or trigger new avenues of thought to help us break through the double walls which arise around every church : one built by the members and the outer one constructed by the community . |
| 16 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 18 | The elderly woman opened it , but she must have thought I was a thief or a beggar , because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies . |
| 19 | In fact my chain was just long enough to let me get into the tiny bathroom , two feet from my mattress , to use the toilet . |
| 20 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 21 | There was too much weight hanging from the wings to let it glide through an awkward bank like that , all the time losing the upthrust from the breeze ; losing it twice , because now it followed the turning plane . |
| 22 | It was 03.17 and I was just in time to see him climb into a waiting car and drive off . |
| 23 | The Irish selectors were keen to see him play in the inter-pro series in his bid for a place in the Irish side . |
| 24 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 25 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 26 | Is it ethical for man to interfere with the genetic constitution and physiological functions of living organisms , especially of man and the higher animals , in order to make them perform in a different way ? |
| 27 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 28 | ‘ I gathered you all wanted to meet me , so it seemed a bit unkind to make you wait until the following morning … ’ |
| 29 | Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue . |
| 30 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |