Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb infin] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first weeks of the new year ruthless reprisals helped restore order to urban Russia . |
| 2 | It 's a pretty sight alright , even if sparks do set fire to the dry grass on either side of the track , enraging landowners . |
| 3 | However , his work does draw attention to the contents of consciousness and offers an account of their ‘ truth ’ and relation to specific historical subjects — classes . |
| 4 | A finder does have title to the goods ( a ‘ possessory ’ title ) but it is subject to the title of the original owner . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the Youth Hostel Association ( YHA ) we fully support any initiative to help improve access to the countryside and have taken this into account in recent developments at our youth hostels . |
| 7 | Erm , whilst those credit approvals do bring reimbursement to the council over time , the equivalent amount to grant in broad terms . |
| 8 | I am aware that the the Secretary for the erm er Secretary of State 's approval letter to the area alteration does make reference to erm |
| 9 | IT seemed a sick joke by John Major to send Lord Owen to help bring peace to Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | You will notice that the comments do pay attention to spelling , but that the main purpose of the response is to show the pupil that he has achieved what he set out to do , that is , to write it like a court report , and to include the main information from the story . |
| 11 | My father did give money to the Arabs to keep his head . ’ |
| 12 | People do give support to their kin but they do so in a way which is patchy , possibly idiosyncratic , and which certainly can not be predicted simply from knowing how they are related to each other . |
| 13 | The Ramsey chronicle of c.1170 , for example , claims to have used charters , some written in English , while there is good reason to think that the historian of Ely Abbey did have access to records compiled in Anglo-Saxon in the late tenth century and translated into Latin in the early twelfth . |
| 14 | I wonder how many teachers do give consideration to ‘ what the boys will like ’ when choosing a class text , and expect the girls to be more tolerant of the choice made . |
| 15 | If Mansell does put pen to paper , our own local Williams team should be right on the pace come the first Grand Prix next year . |
| 16 | ‘ Roman did make love to you while I was spending his money , did n't he ? ’ |
| 17 | Speculation about what will be in it ranges from a package of measures to help reduce unemployment to increases in petrol , alcohol and tobacco . |
| 18 | And yet men do have reason to be concerned if , on these occasions , women find their lonely anger or isolated oppression is understood and shared by other women , so that personal struggles take on political dimensions . |
| 19 | This brief introduction does scant justice to the interest of the temporal structure of this passage . |
| 20 | A year later , at another John Peel session , they drafted in Len Liggins to help add authenticity to their new-found folk edge . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , both types do imply incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive 's event , a fact which poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , which must be explored in order to analyse ( 2 ) — and other uses , such as that in subject function — adequately . |
| 22 | Politicians do have access to independent sources of information and therefore countervailing arguments to those put by the bureaucrats . |