Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said the cousins got some friends to help knock through an internal wall between the sitting room and kitchen of Crook 's flat . |
| 2 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 3 | THE Clinton administration is considering loan guarantees and tax relief to help shore up the ailing US airline industry , as well as lifting restrictions on foreign ownership , the New York Times reported yesterday . |
| 4 | Other grants made by the leisure sub-committee were : Steven Duffy , 13 , of Suffield Street , St Hilda 's , £150 for boxing strip and equipment ; Geoffrey Mullins , 38 , of Baldoon Sands , Acklam , £150 to help qualify as a senior athletics coach ; St Margaret 's Carpet Bowls Club , Brookfield , £477 to buy equipment ; Linthorpe Community Art Group , Linthorpe Community Centre , £200 for materials and equipment and Northern Sinfonia Orchestra , £250 , to help with concert expenses . |
| 5 | A trainee psychologist , played by Lambert 's wife , Diane Lane , is drafted in to help track down the real killer and — you guessed it — takes a more than passing professional interest in Sanderson . |
| 6 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 7 | Such was the sense of shock and disgust that a number of RUC officers offered to work on their days off and without pay to help track down the killer . |
| 8 | ‘ But I thought you were more than happy to help clear up the unfortunate Billy 's death . |
| 9 | The chief executive of Gwynedd County Council , Huw V Thomas , who is acting as co-ordinator following the flood damage in the Aberconwy area , last night praised the 50 Army personnel for the work they put in during the day to help clear up the mess in the Morfa Conwy and Llandudno Junction areas . |
| 10 | ‘ Such is the progress made that they are now ready to move on to Llandudno to help clear up the mess in various houses there , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 11 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |
| 12 | And , indeed , she was more than anxious to do what she could to help look after the twins . |
| 13 | The pig would be hung up on a big strong hook and there was much to-ing and fro-ing with kettles of boiling water to help scrape off the bristles and extract the entrails . |
| 14 | In an apparent effort to improve relations with the United States , the government of North Korea on June 24 returned the remains of 11 US servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War , and promised to help search for a further 9,000 allied military personnel still officially listed as missing in action [ see also p. 37456 ] . |
| 15 | The Anyons will be back there again at the end of the month to help search for the Viking wreck , although future dives will depend on raising sponsorship . |
| 16 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 17 | To help decide on the relevance of a piece of information you can ask questions of it as suggested in Question Analysis . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , PTGI continues to review videos of other Guinness advertising around the world to help decide on the next step . |
| 19 | While the Prime Minister immediately offered the use of British military camps in West Germany to help cope with the current surge of refugees , her Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , promised East Germany the kind of practical help in creating a more market-orientated economy which Britain has given Poland — some £25 million of ‘ Know How ’ funds over 25 years and is pledged to give to ex-Communist Hungary . |
| 20 | Last month extra German troops were sent to Iran to help cope with the refugees flooding in from Iraq . |
| 21 | THE creation of a spot market for industrial gas to help cope with the volumes coming on to the market as a result of the reduction in the British Gas business has been raised by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 22 | • friendship/ ‘ group therapy ’ to help cope with the guilt/family attitude/tiredness/attitude of work colleagues/stress |
| 23 | To help cope with the demand , the shop assistants had arranged a line of trestles outside the shop , each one piled high with the Gunthe Wallah 's stickiest and most sickly sweets . |
| 24 | He also denounced Resolution 705 on the creation of a war reparations fund , reiterating Iraq 's request for a five-year moratorium to help cope with the consequences of bombing and economic devastation [ see p. 38211 ] . |
| 25 | You should keep this chart with your cleaning equipment to help cope with an emergency . |
| 26 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 27 | In the future , computerised spatial mapping of the distribution of frequencies in the manner now being used for electroencephalographic mapping of epileptic foci may provide a non-invasive alternative to multiple implanted electrodes to help distinguish between the above explanations . |
| 28 | In response , the British Mountaineering Council is proposing a Pen Trwyn style scheme of abseil points and lower-offs , and is to apply to the Sports Council for a grant to help pay for a geological survey of the rock . |
| 29 | Thus the new US Secretary of State , George Marshall , came forward on 5 June 1947 with the Marshall Plan , to help pay for a comprehensive recovery plan which would set Europe on its economic feet . |
| 30 | Contributions promised by the Saudis , Kuwait , Japan and others to help pay for the Gulf war count as invisibles receipts . |