Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
| 2 | Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] . |
| 3 | ‘ It blows my mind to see it come through like this . |
| 4 | As you open up the throttle , you need to move to the front of the boat to help it rise on to the plane . |
| 5 | He thought it quite possible that Pike had starved the horse to help it recover from its leg injury . |
| 6 | this happens automatically with a 1×1 rib , but when we come to the 2×2 ribs we have to take steps to make it happen . |
| 7 | Luckily she had proof , because she did n't think it was going to take long before he took steps to make it seem as if she 'd made a criminally stupid error . |
| 8 | The Owton Manor Primary School pupil from Hartlepool had his left leg broken and pinned in a bid to make it grow longer . |
| 9 | A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction . |
| 10 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 11 | But the colonies were run on a shoe-string and generated explosive tensions ; both officers and men loathed the system , and the attempt to make it pay by imposing the most detailed and humiliating regulations sparked off repeated risings . |
| 12 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 13 | But , in an attempt to make it look as if democracy were alive , Iran 's clergy were urged to form political parties . |
| 14 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 15 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 16 | It was also planned to extensively landscape the road with tree planting over the next 12 months to make it blend in with the surrounding area . |
| 17 | John wound up the toy car to make it go . |
| 18 | In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) . |
| 19 | Once the opponent has landed fully , the hook will require a lot of force to make it work , and a foot sweep may then be the more appropriate technique to apply . |
| 20 | Scissor-snip the bacon fat at intervals to help it release its fat . |
| 21 | AEA itself has appointed consultants and merchant bankers to help it develop and refine its work on strategic options as its contributions to the DTI review . |
| 22 | He 'd be a fool to let it go for under sixteen even to a sitting tenant . " |
| 23 | He took from it a ten-shilling note which he placed on the tea-chest , smoothing out the folds to make it lie flat . |
| 24 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 25 | Neighbours beat the dog with a metal bar to make it release its grip . |
| 26 | After her death Jones planned to place the body in the car with the engine running and push the pipe through the window to make it look like suicide . |
| 27 | ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass . |
| 28 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 29 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 30 | The allied warship fired off warning shots across the Korean ship 's bows to make it stop , but it was cleared to continue it 's voyage . |