Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 2 | Let me send my offerings where I can not go ; my pains to comfort sufferers whom I will never see ; and my sacrifices to help plant the Cross in lands that know not yet of the Crucified . |
| 3 | I left my country to help straighten things out . |
| 4 | Councillor Michael Hannon , deputy mayor , who represents the Orford area where the bomb attack took place in February , said : ‘ I intend to do everything in my power to help relocate these tanks . |
| 5 | This would carry with it a responsibility on their part to help devise the tests , or at least to scrutinize their content . |
| 6 | In ‘ Controlling an epidemic ’ Brookbanks & Hampstead describe how they contacted intravenous drug users and their contacts to help stop the spread of an outbreak , and WHO recommend that all health care workers receive vaccination against hepatitis B. |
| 7 | An alternative to this view is that corporate managers use their expertise to help define and implement the broad purpose of the organization , which is assumed to be that of furthering the public interest . |
| 8 | He feels the banks must do their bit to help drag the country out of recession . |
| 9 | CHILDREN from Llandudno schools have been doing their bit to help soften the impact of a massive building project on the town 's promenade . |
| 10 | CHILDREN from Llandudno schools have been doing their bit to help soften the impact of a massive building project on Llandudno 's promenade . |
| 11 | It seemed that the men pooled their money to help survive . |
| 12 | MANWEB is doing its bit to help flood victims . |
| 13 | The EC has declared its willingness to help finance a plan for the environmentally-sound development of the Coto Donana wetlands in southern Spain , which had been repeatedly identified as at risk from inappropriate farming and tourism . |
| 14 | Bachelor Dr Smith , of Northampton , said he and his father had remortgaged their homes to help meet the growing bills . |
| 15 | It has also declared its intention to help develop new environmental industries . |
| 16 | Leith closed the door with an angry thud , then opened her mouth to let fly — but he got in first . |
| 17 | He said the letters and sinister phone call showed that ‘ the unidentified criminals wanted to use their crime to help restore a Nazi dictatorship in Germany ’ . |
| 18 | Victims of meningitis have been sharing their experiences to help make people more aware of the disease . |
| 19 | Other groups with links to the pre-war Die-hards also used their influence to help advertise the Protocols of the Elders of Zion through newspaper publications . |
| 20 | In 1984 a Company was formed , Steamport 1984 Ltd. , to acquire the site from British Rail , with the support of a large group of members , who took a deep breath , and dug into their pockets to help finance a substantial portion of the initial costs , and with the aid of a bank loan , which is now well over half way repaid , the premises became truly home to the exhibits , both privately and society owned . |
| 21 | 17 She uses her feet to help stretch the wings . |
| 22 | And this was not the moment to suggest that Emilia , with her refusal to let go of Cambridge , to be truly present in the parish , might herself be at fault . |
| 23 | It may , and does , tolerate considerable neglect of those symbols and stated beliefs , but those people who find the Free Presbyterian/DUP element petty in their refusal to help restore a Church of Ireland church or attend Remembrance Day services can not promote a coherent ideology which would justify their criticisms . |
| 24 | Initial test copies of the Earth Data System , which incorporates Boulder , Colorado-based Ellery software , began shipping in October 1992 , and are running on Hewlett workstations at five US locations including universities and research centres , for example enabling researchers analysing the Pacific Northwest to look at environmental data from their desktop to help forest managers to decide where to cut and replant trees without disrupting wildlife . |
| 25 | If you had lifted the dresses of the Krishnapur ladies on that morning of the last assault , you would have found them correspondingly bare-legged , for it was they who had donated their stockings to help solve Harry 's difficulty with his brass cannon Because , incredible though it may seem , he had fired so many round shot in the course of the siege that the muzzle had been hammered into an ellipse . |
| 26 | The soldiers escorting it used their weapons to help destroy the creatures . |
| 27 | If the IB is serious in its wish to help restore democracy it must act now . |
| 28 | It , too , wants people to be literate and complains that its offers to help have been ignored . |
| 29 | Over the coming weeks we will reveal some of her exercises to help get you in shape . |
| 30 | It was significant that , when the war took a grave turn the following year , it was to every Anglican incumbent in the land ( and no doubt to many others , though I can speak only for the parish clergy ) that Duff Cooper , the Home Secretary , sent letters expressing apprehension of the state of public morale and urging the incumbents to do their utmost to help raise it . |