Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the USA , which in the 1980s still seemed sufficiently vast and dominant to deal with its economic problems without taking any notice of anyone else , at the end of that decade became aware that it ‘ had ceded considerable control over its economy to foreign investors … ( who ) now hold the power to help keep the US economy growing , or to help plunge it into recession ’ ( The Wall Street Journal , December 5 , 1988 , p1 ) . |
| 2 | And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ? |
| 3 | Legal organizations , to be effective in attaining their mandate , have to transmit their policies to and make secure their control over the enforcement agent in the field . |
| 4 | Freshly I dresse , and make blacke my haire . |
| 5 | ‘ And let go my damned arm ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When you have been oppressed and let free you are like a bird out of a cage . |
| 7 | Live and let live I say , but unless I want to be certain of constantly bumping into parties of rambling Rotarians , I think I will keep off these organised highways . |
| 8 | You 've got ta live and let live I do n't really care . |
| 9 | I 'll go and do want anything ? |
| 10 | I 'll just finish reading this and then I 'll er go and do give me a smackerooney , look at that lovely face , a little angel , a little angel |
| 11 | Our service staff have also been working hard to ensure the highest standards in difficult times and to help retain our customers . |
| 12 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 13 | What I 'd like to introduce lastly now is an approach that you can take to training to help yourselves and to help make it more effective and more systematic and what I 'd like to introduce to you is , is something called the training cycle and the rest of the course is actually based around the training cycle and I know Margaret you 've actually seen the training cycle a few weeks ago , I 'm not sure if , if any of the others are , any of the others familiar ? |
| 14 | As a young man he was cursed with a dreadful stammer , and to help combat it he became a club singer , not easy under the best of circumstances . |
| 15 | A project support worker visited her daily to ensure that she ate , and to help keep her clean and safe . |
| 16 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 17 | ‘ I understand that some of the passengers on the jet , which was flying from Bahrain , got together and helped pay his fine . |
| 18 | Bernard was present at their interrogation by Australian and British officers and helped escort them to Singapore Supreme Court , where some were found guilty of war crimes . |
| 19 | Wilkinson was in no doubt how his team had benefited : ‘ The fact I was able to work so hard with them has definitely made a big difference and helped improve my back four . |
| 20 | Both were winter occupations and helped keep you warm on a cold day . |
| 21 | During the previous summer , Coleman had acted as technical adviser to the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) and helped train its officers in the use of communications , surveillance and other electronic gear paid for by the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) . |
| 22 | And to do say one , two , three 's done . |
| 23 | I mean and lets face it you came home from school er I think we used to come home about half past four from school summertime and the first thing you come into the house and you get a great big thick slice of home made bread and jam which your mother had also made , also made . |
| 24 | He s got quite a dry sense of humour and was probably ‘ joking ’ about the Norwich match … and lets face it it was a bit of a horror show defensively ! |
| 25 | We are far less controversial than most of them … and lets face it , anyone who receives mail from the list has to go out of their way to get that mail … unlike fanzines . |
| 26 | Speed really wants to play more centrally and lets face it is better making runs into the box , for crosses and knocks-down than he is at beating a full-back and crossing the ball . |
| 27 | Leeds are the same team basically but needed a spell out of the limelight : everyone is totally obsessed with Man United now and lets hope it will tell on the scum — we are definitely benefitting . |
| 28 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 29 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 30 | Try to avoid getting constipated and do tell your midwife or GP . |