Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 2 | TED CROKER , who helped bring football into the modern era , died yesterday aged 68 . |
| 3 | Scientists at the EPA , who helped analyse samples of sediment from the Farallon Islands say the public has over-reacted to findings of radioactivity there that were 200 times background levels . |
| 4 | A LORRY driver who helped take aid to refugees in Croatia was yesterday named Britain 's Top Dad . |
| 5 | An airman who helped destroy evidence after a twenty million pound arson attack has been fined fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 6 | Her one fixation was fitness and she kept herself in peak physical condition by attending aerobic classes three times a week at the Rivereast Health Club on Second Avenue , where she also helped put housewives through their paces in the basic skills of karate . |
| 7 | BUMPER nine-month figures at drugs group Medeva helped add sparkle to its shares yesterday , climbing slowly towards its high of 301p earlier this year . |
| 8 | A marketing plan was put in place which helped reduce dependence on the naval base , Faslane ; targeted other sources of revenue ; improved the hotel 's profile and instituted an effective staff training programme . |
| 9 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 10 | And , says the lone environmentalist who helped advise ministers on how to implement the European law in Britain , it is all the outcome of a decade of obstruction by British officials . |
| 11 | The Yoko-like presence of a Greek Cypriot called Osmand Raif , Justin 's martial arts ‘ flexibility instructor ’ and personal masseur , was one of the things that helped rub Cloughie up the wrong way . |
| 12 | McLean said she also helped rub mud in her face . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 14 | I did eat jelly with chopsticks — as I said ! |
| 15 | In spite of these considerations , Weber certainly did regard capitalism as a class society — economic relations form the basis of inequality . |
| 16 | The children did make changes in vocabulary , substituting " changed " for " alternated " for example , and they also changed syntax , preferring a main clause , " When the wool had been cleaned and combed " to " The raw wool having been cleaned and combed " . |
| 17 | On a more positive note , the expedition did make port at the appointed hour on the appointed day , having spent several hours in a public house further up the estuary to avoid being early , which made for a very ‘ happy ’ reunion . |
| 18 | One strange discovery we did make scraps of paper bearing the word Raphael . |
| 19 | Hard to explain the conflict in our acquaintance , but perhaps I had an instinctive feeling that she , in fact , wanted me to go to bed with her , and she knew I would n't — because if I did make love to her , it would be a victory for her and a defeat for me . |
| 20 | ‘ Roman did make love to you while I was spending his money , did n't he ? ’ |
| 21 | Staring from the window , her mouth curved in a smile , she wondered what he would say if she told him that if he did make love to her he would be the first . |
| 22 | There were Henry Drummonds in every generation who did make connections between their theology and their science . |
| 23 | At the end of our statement sir we we did make reference to the er er removal possible removal of the article fourteen . |
| 24 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 25 | A small number of studies did make use of observational methods , but a high proportion of these also included supplementary interview data " to bolster their conclusions " . |
| 26 | Brigitte did make enquiries at Pitmans , where classes started at five in the evening , and at the Kilburn Polytechnic , where there were weekend classes , but continued to doubt her ability to study enough at evening classes . |
| 27 | It was inevitable that if , in saying anything that blamed others , he did make admissions in part that would tend to confirm the accuracy of the allegations that had already been made against him . |
| 28 | it 's just I did want clarification on that point and I did n't quite understand the answer . |
| 29 | ‘ Though , ’ she qualified , ‘ I did enjoy botany at school , and I 'd love to see your ghost orchids . ’ |
| 30 | They did install agents in The Hague with instructions to guide paratroopers to the Dutch seat of government . |