Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 2 | As well as this , in August we helped orchestrate a series of practical workshops at the London Print Workshop . |
| 3 | A 96 helped salvage a draw at Sydney after Bradman 's 340 not out had taken NSW to 713 for 6 , and a 60 against Queensland and 87 against the strong 1928–29 MCC bowling raised his prospects . |
| 4 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 5 | It was work completed in Alaska which helped provide a clue to the nature of the problem at BA-1 , explains head of production technology Lindsay Brown . |
| 6 | Michel Perie , the boisterous young Toulon prop whose domination of Pascal Ondarts helped provide a platform for his side 's victory , holds aloft the Championship trophy . |
| 7 | But the Moray Firth experiments were only possible after the naturalist Dr David Bellamy helped secure a donation from the Co-operative Wholesale Society . |
| 8 | A 50% increase in the sales team to 9,000 helped spark a 124% profits surge to £6.3m in the six months to September 12 . |
| 9 | Two CWMBRAN staff took part in a 24 hour sponsored famine which helped raise a total of £324 . |
| 10 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 11 | A COVENTRY schoolgirl who helped form a theatre company at the age of 14 and took a play to Russia on a 10-day tour two years later could soon be working at the National Theatre . |
| 12 | Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions . |
| 13 | In the middle of his harrowing report he let slip a sentence , and we hear from that monster of objectivity inside every artist who sees everything as grist to the mill . |
| 14 | But it did explain a lot , especially how Stubbly had managed to keep the Mimosa trouble-free over the years . |
| 15 | But the Irish Under-25 and Open singles champion did earn a place in the record books . |
| 16 | where they did build a school for them you see . |
| 17 | Neither programme really effected any change in the course of events , but they did build a sense of trust in those who might one day use us to bear public witness against the Godfathers of terrorism . |
| 18 | cook my dinner , ooh he did deliver a bacon casserole , mm , it 's hot is n't it ? |
| 19 | If the lecturer to be deleted is the only one that reports to a particular senior lecturer , then the information that the senior lecturer did supervise a lecturer is lost if the lecturer record is deleted . |
| 20 | He did paint a kind of rosy picture , did n't he ? |
| 21 | He did paint a number of portraits , but a painting of a piebald pony in the window of his studio was so lifelike that people started to ask him to paint animals . |
| 22 | However , I did make a slip , which Mr Summers points out : total government revenue is about £40m , of which fisheries licence revenue is £25m . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think you did make a mistake , ’ Ruth told him with resignation . |
| 24 | I did make a bit of fuss about it and the nurse told me to stop moaning . |
| 25 | Her Majesty 's dogs did make a bit of a dent in the corgi image when one of them bit the Queen 's hand during a fight last year , but like King Charles the second and his spaniels , the Queen is inseparable from her corgis . |
| 26 | He took part in the Fifth Comintern ( June — July 1924 ) where he did make a mark . |
| 27 | ‘ We did make a £3 million offer to Sheffield United for Brian Deane , but they were n't interested . |
| 28 | I did make a note by the way for that . |
| 29 | He did make a visit to Rangoon , either in December 1945 or January 1946 , when he called on the Governor who noted on a draft ‘ Nu snubbed ’ . |
| 30 | It is probable that Sheffield did make a start , for a fresh lease was issued to him on 5 December 1806 for the remaining 18 years of his term by Lady Anne Frederica Elizabeth le Fleming — Sir Michael had died . |