Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria . |
| 2 | After the appeal , Duncan McAllister resigned his Army commission while publicity surrounding Christie 's friendship with Anna Moore helped keep her in the public eye . |
| 3 | ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League . |
| 4 | I see let take it from the other end , why did you have to take the insertion of the contingency fund of the estimates |
| 5 | They use it to help prepare themselves for the interview — i.e. to get to know you a bit before you arrive and work out the questions they are going to ask you . |
| 6 | But the company said its investment programme helped raise its visibility in a relatively lifeless marketplace and , in the American laboratory market in particular , helped shield it from the worst effects of the recession . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , BNL was ordered on March 11 to raise its US reserve deposits by $5,200,000 , in order to help cover itself against the liabilities incurred by some of its staff in the course of the affair . |
| 8 | British Waterways and the Ministry of Agriculture have been approached by fishing clubs in the region to help rid them of the menace which is depleting fish stocks in the canal . |
| 9 | In a drift away from the Auld Alliance , leading magnates appealed to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth of England to help rid them of the French . |
| 10 | Mr Cruickshank has spent just over three years in charge of the Scottish health service and has helped set it on the Government 's controversial road to self-governing hospitals and fund-holding family doctor practices . |
| 11 | By creating and maintaining institutions that deny feelings of warmth and tenderness , by encouraging male competitive and aggressive styles of human encounter , prisons are killing off in prisoners those qualities most likely to help re-establish them in the community . |
| 12 | Players were encouraged to exaggerate the portamento and vibrato features of their instruments to help distinguish them from the wind sections ( 11 ) . |
| 13 | We look at some of the models available to help point you in the right direction |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you dare put me in the same bracket as Terry Lewis ! |
| 15 | Come on buddy , lets take you up the path ay ? |
| 16 | It is certainly helped by the fact that the spadefoot toad 's eggs are black , covered by a pigment called melanin which helps protect them from the sun 's rays ( the same pigment is responsible for tanning in human beings ) . |
| 17 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 18 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 19 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 20 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 21 | Leaves do orientate themselves toward the light , so turn the pots regularly . |
| 22 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 23 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
| 24 | Bernier , in his role as imperial surgeon , did make it into the zenana complex , but was not much the wiser afterwards : |
| 25 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 26 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 27 | I really did enjoy myself in the Tests last summer and know I can reproduce that form again . ’ |
| 28 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 29 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 30 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |