Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura Fabbri helped conduct the dog census recently performed by the group at the University of Rome . |
| 2 | The row over John Taylor helped lose the seat to the Liberal Democrats , but this time the Tories say their candidate will be chosen on ’ electability ’ . |
| 3 | Other optical effects , such as the montaged graphics sequence showing the Doctor , Sara and Bret being ‘ matter transported ’ to Mira helped inspire the Effects Designers working on the stargate sequences for Kubrick 's 2001 : A Space Odyssey . |
| 4 | The electronic wizardry of Grumman 's JSTARS helped turn the land battle for Kuwait into a ‘ turkey shoot ’ . |
| 5 | Following the award of Magna Carta in 1215 Elias helped distribute the charter around the shires , becoming an enthusiastic adherent of the rebel barons and preaching their cause at St Paul 's cross in London . |
| 6 | High-yield-bond sales through Drexel helped finance the acquisitions that have turned Hasbro into America 's biggest toy company . |
| 7 | In this year the course was back to full length and the closure of Peppard helped swell the membership , especially of the Artisans . |
| 8 | A police spokesman said Saints ' midfielder Terry Hurlock was set upon inside the club and former Arsenal forward Perry Groves helped restrain the attacker . |
| 9 | The Sunday working at Sainsbury helped maintain the household 's income , she said . |
| 10 | Paul McStay helped mastermind the win in Norrkoping — the Scots will pray for more of the same in Berne on Wednesday night |
| 11 | So it was many weeks before Ellie dared try the key in the lock . |
| 12 | Lieutenant Denholm did explain the dangers to you ? ’ |
| 13 | Celtic did have the ball in the net in ten minutes , but Frank McAvennie was clearly offside when he pounced to beat Theo Smelders from eight yards . |
| 14 | But Nigel did take the time to explain that b that basically this was the , the , the view that the new directive would take place keeping it simple . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't really say about that , ’ she said , ‘ but — ’ launching into a text learned by heart — ‘ although guilty of many deviations from Marxism-Leninism and Socialist legality , Stalin did lead the heroic resistance of the Soviet peoples in the anti-Fascist war . ’ |
| 16 | Yes , Pete did do the washing up while you were out — we would n't have expected you to do it . |
| 17 | Charities throughout County Durham and North Yorkshire helped buy the machine which will test the hearing of babies and mentally handicapped people . |
| 18 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 19 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 20 | ‘ The point is , I rang the accommodation warden just to check ; Matthew did visit the old boy every Sunday but he never spent more than half an hour with him . |
| 21 | The documents he provided for Strype helped counterbalance the reliance upon official sources in Strype 's histories of Elizabethan archbishops . |
| 22 | But all the jollity does n't totally obscure his illegal activities ; Lovejoy did begin the previous series with a spell in jail . |
| 23 | Clearly , then , Professor Usher remains convinced that the baby had at least an 80% chance of survival , and that Leonard Arthur did prescribe the drug with the intention of causing the child 's death , especially in view of Dr Arthur 's comments on his philosophical attitude to this type of situation . |
| 24 | That apart , South Africa did give the best two sides in the world a game . |
| 25 | ‘ the burden is upon the defendant , Mr. Smith , to satisfy the court on the balance of probabilities that Mr. Winterbone did have the necessary capacity . |
| 26 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 27 | Mind you , Malcolm did take the piss out of him as well , calling him Troy Tempest in a leather jacket . |
| 28 | He claimed that he had been ‘ the master of ceremonies ’ , but The Builder report indicates that this role was carried out by Tite , although if Scott 's previous conclusion was correct , Donaldson did organize the delegation . |
| 29 | Bobby Locke did top the Order of Merit in 1946 , 1950 and 1954 , and the only other South African to do so was Dale Hayes in 1975 . |
| 30 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |