Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 2 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 3 | All this has vanished save for the church , of which St Augustine 's chapel is an original fragment . |
| 4 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 5 | The pressure of pain on his temples let go for a minute to rearrange itself further back . |
| 6 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 7 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
| 8 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 9 | Bishop John thinks that he and the archdeacons are adequately paid ( their stipends are £20,350 and £16,930 respectively ) , ‘ but I would n't dare speak for the parish clergy . ’ |
| 10 | In an apparent effort to improve relations with the United States , the government of North Korea on June 24 returned the remains of 11 US servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War , and promised to help search for a further 9,000 allied military personnel still officially listed as missing in action [ see also p. 37456 ] . |
| 11 | The Anyons will be back there again at the end of the month to help search for the Viking wreck , although future dives will depend on raising sponsorship . |
| 12 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 13 | Now the group has helped pay for a bronze sculpture in memory of the navvies . |
| 14 | Members of Maghull Chapel have already helped pay for a well to be dug to give the village drinking water . |
| 15 | This unexpected find would have helped pay for the dead work of the shaft sinking . |
| 16 | In response , the British Mountaineering Council is proposing a Pen Trwyn style scheme of abseil points and lower-offs , and is to apply to the Sports Council for a grant to help pay for a geological survey of the rock . |
| 17 | Thus the new US Secretary of State , George Marshall , came forward on 5 June 1947 with the Marshall Plan , to help pay for a comprehensive recovery plan which would set Europe on its economic feet . |
| 18 | Contributions promised by the Saudis , Kuwait , Japan and others to help pay for the Gulf war count as invisibles receipts . |
| 19 | America is likely to have a current-account surplus in the first or second quarter of this year , thanks to the $40 billion-50 billion promised by foreign governments to help pay for the cost of the Gulf war . |
| 20 | The company is raising £335m ( one-for-three at 605p ) to help pay for the acquisition of two packaging companies , DRG and Cope Allman . |
| 21 | Electricity consumers are paying a levy which goes to Nuclear Electric to help pay for the cost of removal and disposal of radioactive plant when existing nuclear power stations reach the end of their operating lives . |
| 22 | However , the growth of economic nationalism on a world-wide scale during the war , the re-drawing of the political map of Europe , the effect of the Versailles Treaty , and the large debt due to the Americans to help pay for the war , all ensured that the freedom of action to expand welfare was strictly limited . |
| 23 | But Germany , which led the campaign to reduce spending on space to help pay for the soaring cost of reunification , sees the situation as an opportunity of reduce the cost of Columbus as well . |
| 24 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 25 | The infrastructure of a modern state — for example , transport , post , banks — was created , and a variety of methods used to promote the building of a modern industrial sector and the exports to help pay for the undertaking . |
| 26 | We picked Yvonne up at the top of the slip by the RNLI shed where they sold stuff to help pay for the lifeboat . |
| 27 | It has been estimated the Sweden has 65,000 wells , that is 15–20 per cent of all private wells , which are acidified to the extent that they are eligible to receive government grants to help pay for the cost of restoring water quality . |
| 28 | Suppose I suggest to you that we stop part of your wages to help pay for the damage to the china and to Mrs Darrell 's dignity , and you promise to be good in future ? ’ |
| 29 | The dollar is dramatically devalued to help pay for the Vietnam War . |
| 30 | Because er well if there was a death er in the family at th that time they used to erm I do n't suppose you remember it but er there used to always be a plate on a table whoever called would leave a little bit money on the plate to help pay for the funeral or whatever . |