Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 2 | I expected them to learn how to read . |
| 3 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 4 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 5 | I feel that it 's about creating the warmth and security at home , in school , wherever they are , from outside to help build up their sense of warmth and security from within , and to enable them to learn how to deal with some of these issues so that they can cope with the difficulties of life when they grow up . |
| 6 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 7 | In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote . |
| 8 | Those who found politics interesting in the campaign but had not been interested in politics a year earlier gave the press high ratings for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 9 | Those who read highbrow papers found their papers no more useful for helping them decide how to vote or for revealing politicians ' personalities , and only a little more useful for explaining political issues . |
| 10 | But on helping them decide how to vote , opinion was much more evenly divided : 36 per cent preferred television , 24 per cent the press , and a remarkable 40 per cent said the two sources were equally useful ( Table 6.12 ) . |
| 11 | So amongst tabloid readers generally , but especially amongst Sun/Star readers , there was a dramatic difference between their overwhelming preference for television as a source of information and their reliance upon both press and television for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 12 | Our panel rated PEBs much lower than the press or television news for providing information on issues , but similar to the press for providing information on leaders , and close behind the press and television news for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 13 | Vote-guidance seekers , and those who lacked strong preferences , found personal conversations useful in helping them decide how to vote . |
| 14 | Readers of the tabloid press overwhelmingly preferred television rather than the press as an information source but , like other voters , they had a relatively slight preference for television rather than the press for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 15 | Overall , although readers were well aware that their papers were relatively biased compared to television and although they rated television as much more useful for providing information about issues , they did not rate television much more useful in helping them decide how to vote . |
| 16 | At certain times of the day , the children work as individuals or in small groups , helping them to learn how to socialise and to share with their peers . |
| 17 | They made me move in to live with them as something they called their au-pair girl , mostly to exercise two new Great Dane puppies . |
| 18 | ‘ She made me promise not to ask . ’ |
| 19 | She made me promise not to tell what had happened . |
| 20 | I knew it must be wrong , because afterwards he made me promise not to tell anyone about it , not even Mamma . |
| 21 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 22 | Ryan made me promise never to tell you . ’ |
| 23 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 24 | ‘ When we visit him and Sally they make me go outside to smoke . |
| 25 | Then he seemed to change the subject as he continued , ‘ You surely do n't think I plan just to sit around and do nothing about getting my speedboat back , not to mention my cousin ? |
| 26 | I had to pretend I knew how to mark up blocks . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know I mean I prefer not to predict . |
| 28 | And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business . |
| 29 | And the second man who pursued me did so to gain a large fortune , to spend on his long-term mistress and their children , and to laugh at the silly girl and her father who gave it to him . |
| 30 | Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night . |