Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun prp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robins has jumped to the head of Stuttgart 's hit list after helping Norwich top the Premier League following his summer move from Manchester United for £800,000 . |
| 2 | She had run to the door after seeing McAllister walk up the front path , and greeted her with a wide grin , brought on by the sight of McAllister 's sailor outfit . |
| 3 | Manager Colin Murphy was far from happy after seeing Southend crash to a late goal that increased their relegation worries . |
| 4 | ‘ They should drop the entire pack ’ — IVAN VODANOVICH ( former New Zealand coach ) after seeing Australia destroy South Africa in Cape Town ( 26–3 ) . |
| 5 | Despite helping Bath become one of the best club sides in the world , Barnes 's international career has been a miserable disappointment . |
| 6 | Corporal Stephen Paterson was found guilty of helping Bailey try to destroy evidence by a washing a pair of his bloodstained jeans . |
| 7 | Mrs Smith , who 's Belgian by birth , has taught herself Hungarian so she can work in Hungary to raise money — but ultimately without more funds the cost of helping Ashley stand on his own two feet may prove too high . |
| 8 | The therapist arranged with the couple that they would attend between four and six conjoint sessions as outpatients during the next 3–4 weeks in order to explore ways of improving their relationship , particularly their lack of social life together , and of helping Charles control his physical aggression . |
| 9 | Last November we had the distressing experience of seeing Sam suffer an epileptic fit . |
| 10 | A 9,000 crowd had the satisfaction of seeing Tendulkar make the highest score in 22 years of Sunday League games against Lancashire . |
| 11 | It was MacQuillan 's way of letting Pascoe know he was to leave , he said . |
| 12 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 13 | I made the mistake of letting Jan know I share a flat with a Man . |
| 14 | " Do you think — is there any way of — of letting Toby know that I 'm all right ? " |
| 15 | ‘ I have no intention of letting Mowbray go , ’ said Brady , who also has Gary Gillespie and Joe Miller in his squad . |
| 16 | The shock of hearing Dana say she was jealous would have to be pushed to the back of her mind for now . |
| 17 | But it had served the purpose of making Jane know about her |
| 18 | The Turkish manoeuvres which culminated in what seemed to be the disaster of Sinope had the object of making Nicholas look aggressive , but if the sultan hoped to increase the determination of Britain and France to put Russia in her place , he found that Britain , at least , dragged her feet . |
| 19 | This achieved the objective of making Berenguer split his force into three groups , each to watch one of the passes from the valley . |
| 20 | The boys advanced : relieved from the onus of making Dada speak , they were quite eager in their delayed approaches . |
| 21 | In this way the author ( somewhat naively ) avoids the anti-climax of making Roland fall victim to a Saracen sword . |
| 22 | Labour spokesmen made generous use of statistics to castigate the government for refusing to spend more money on science , and for letting Britain slip down the international league table on R&D spending . |
| 23 | Tell him how sorry you are for letting Satan influence your life . |
| 24 | He blamed himself for letting Jess persuade him into running off . |
| 25 | West Brom were then safe and were not too bothered about letting Stoke beat them to send Leeds down after the trouble that Leeds fans had caused at the Hawthorns . |
| 26 | There 's proper fencing , and they 've put down tree bark , which makes me confident about letting Richard run around — he 's a bit ham-footed sometimes ! |
| 27 | The agreement covers co-operative marketing of the Harris Night Hawk line of real-time Unix computers with the IBM RS/6000 to US government customers and involves Harris in helping IBM implement real-time capability for the RS/6000 . |
| 28 | Andrew Square Office played a vital role in helping Scotland win the Team Award in the Royline Quarterly Awards . |
| 29 | The British government attempted to extradite Bourke for his part in helping Blake escape but after a long legal wrangle this was rejected by the Irish courts . |
| 30 | Food costs have been high in the past because Fred has not been as efficient as he might have been ( he certainly seems to have neglected his record-keeping ! ) , and his action in letting Chrissie take the food was motivated by his resentment at being demoted . |