Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Players were encouraged to exaggerate the portamento and vibrato features of their instruments to help distinguish them from the wind sections ( 11 ) . |
| 11 | We look at some of the models available to help point you in the right direction |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you dare put me in the same bracket as Terry Lewis ! |
| 13 | Come on buddy , lets take you up the path ay ? |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 19 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
| 20 | Bernier , in his role as imperial surgeon , did make it into the zenana complex , but was not much the wiser afterwards : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 23 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 24 | However , if we worshipped a goddess who lived on Snowdon and adored strawberries , then non-practical , noneconomic ideas might dictate that we did grow them on the mountain top . |
| 25 | But I really did like it at the end when he got back with his mother and the rest of the family and they had a lovely Christmas with hundreds of presents . |
| 26 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 27 | I did see it on the |
| 28 | But I did see it on the T V ? |
| 29 | They resented us in the beginning but I think as the years have gone by and they have seen the facilities that a new town has brought to their advantage I think they 're more acceptable now , but they did resent us in the beginning . |
| 30 | It is very difficult to ascertain whether the many companies which use ROI do use it in the way proposed . |