Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives local authorities an additional one hundred million pounds to spend when the low level of inflation is helping them keep down the cost of providing their services . |
| 2 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 3 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 4 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 5 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 6 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 8 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 9 | In a great gesture of trust , Josie let her switch off the lights unsupervised . |
| 10 | And she let it force out the delighted cry ‘ Daniel ! ’ and make her hug him and kiss him — even while the darkness and the ice returned within . |
| 11 | He let it slither down the roof to the building 's guttering . |
| 12 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 13 | and let them find out the hard way ? |
| 14 | Let me set out the main provisions of the agreements we reached . |
| 15 | So Judge — gave us a 21-month suspended sentence and let me walk out the court . |
| 16 | I 'm terrible let me rub out the entire thing and start all over again , yeah ? |
| 17 | ‘ Let me fill in the details . |
| 18 | The God who had made him get off the trike and stand still at the side of the grassily banked hill . |
| 19 | You can now unscrew the nut and let it slide down the pipe as you do n't need it now . |
| 20 | It was very common that the duty wag at the time would make a little paper boat , and probably get some fat or grease from some convenient part of the ship , He would then set light to this and let it sail down the waterway whilst there was a great row of people sitting attending to their needs of nature . |
| 21 | There is n't , you know , there is n't one thing is that we need to , with the short-term programmes we did n't do it work out the financial we need to go one stage further identify where the labour is |
| 22 | We think you should think about : ZINC let us spell out the reasons why : |
| 23 | Let us sum up the main points . |
| 24 | Let us sum up the discussion so far . |
| 25 | Next let us work out the capacitance per unit surface area . |
| 26 | As an example let us work out the surface-charge density on the surface of the conducting plane due to a positive charge q above it ( Fig. 2.33 ( a ) ) . |
| 27 | But first let us follow up the possibility that the problem is entirely to do with the estimate . |
| 28 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 29 | This service gives clubs and organisations the opportunity to invite a speaker from Scottish Nuclear to give a talk and slide presentation to help them find out the true facts about us . |
| 30 | In any case , the Dwarfs saw in the savage human tribes potential allies to help them fight the Orcs and , ultimately , to help them win back the lost Dwarf fortresses . |