Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 2 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |
| 3 | This holds the pressed plant material in place allowing you to build up a design without dislodging any of the flowers you have already arranged . |
| 4 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 5 | In execution of that policy it was proposed that a circular would be issued to all local authorities asking them to carry out a review of the curriculum in their areas in consultation with their schools and to report the results within about twelve months . |
| 6 | Pupils ' knowledge was studied by asking them to mark appropriately a diagram of a rectangle and its diagonal drawn in a dotted outline . |
| 7 | When you come to answer an exam question , remember that it is probably asking you to carry out a number of different tasks . |
| 8 | Then with excruciating slowness he relaxed his hold , allowing her to back away a pace . |
| 9 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |
| 10 | This makes it much easier to integrate teaching and assessment , as well as helping us to build up a rapport with our trainees . |
| 11 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |