Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticism and poetics both constrict the text by making it conform to a meaning or to a model . |
| 2 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 3 | Unemployed people are given training opportunities in the hope of helping them find work . |
| 4 | Not just smear the KGB by making them seem callously careless in their shooting . |
| 5 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 6 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 7 | And due to them taking a lot of the trees do you see , from there , and opened the wind in do you see . |
| 8 | He started the car by letting it run downhill — Maxim had insisted they park so that there would be no give-away noise of the starter- and drove steadily for several miles . |
| 9 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 10 | O Sister , Sister ! if ever you marry , beware of a sullen , silent Sot , one that 's always musing , but never thinks : — There 's some Diversion in a talking Blockhead : and since a Woman must wear Chains , I wou 'd have the Pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little . |
| 11 | And every fourth Friday , or thereabouts , he still wrenched open his TLM , in case Sixsmith had run the screenplay without letting him know . |
| 12 | However natural it is , it still has the effect of making me cry when I catch sight of myself and nurses have visibly cringed upon seeing them . |
| 13 | What sort of mill did you use the mill for did you put grain through the mill |
| 14 | Of course , there 's the question of my present contract , but I feel sure I can bribe the boss into helping me get out of it without too much hassle . ’ |
| 15 | He was accused in a pamphlet , written by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and circulated by Nigel Watts , a property developer , of deceiving the Yugoslavs by letting them believe they were going to Italy . |
| 16 | At the outset , think about the type of feeling you want to create in the room — whether formal or informal , restful , lively , elegant or cottagey . |
| 17 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 18 | One is that I 'm going to give John and Julian and Lloyd an opportunity to say anything that they are burning to say on the basis of hearing us waffle for an hour or so , anything they wish to chip in . |
| 19 | On September 1st , as soon as she was back in Florence , she had sent £12 , almost ten months ' wages to Ellen and had stressed the importance of letting her know such a large sum of money had arrived . |
| 20 | And then So now you 're travelling a little bit too close , your eyes are glued on the back of the vehicle in front , what 's the sort of feeling you get ? |
| 21 | Nat West is to spend £1.5M on training branch managers and Small business Advisers with the aim of helping them understand small firms ' needs more clearly . |
| 22 | The erm much , given much more dominance in the picture by making it stand right up above the horizon . |
| 23 | ‘ All I 'm after is getting you to stand up straight so that you can look people in the eye without feeling you need to pinch their wallets . ’ |
| 24 | Fig 10 ) These chord voicings form the intro of Do I Have To Say The Words . |
| 25 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 26 | That is the difference between switching on and switching off , and switching on is an absolutely essential ingredient to the art of making it happen . |
| 27 | Place your left hand on his or her forehead or , if you prefer , support the head by letting it rest in your left hand . |
| 28 | ‘ Simple enough , ’ Finley comments , ‘ yet the scheme was unique and the difficulties in making it work are nearly unimaginable today . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books . |
| 30 | You curve the surface by making it go down into a hollow . |