Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things , Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits , To practise more than heavenly power permits .
2 Has n't he ever let slip any little hint about who it might have been ? ’
3 So you see you do get some strange loads .
4 A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building .
5 This leaflet has been prepared to help explain this new scheme and how it might affect you .
6 She discussed the idea with her sister-in-law Mabel , and asked her if she would like to come along to help choose some suitable fabric .
7 Amnesty 's major Sri Lanka ( September-December 1990 ) succeeded , against considerable obstacles , in bringing the tragedy of Sri Lanka to the attention of the world , and helped generate some fresh signs of change .
8 Since the scheme was introduced , £957 million has been made available through it in Scotland to help bring many empty houses back into use and assist in reducing waiting lists .
9 More research is clearly needed to help bring this important topic into the open .
10 To help keep these bold bloodsuckers at bay we rubbed wet salt on our boots .
11 Anarchist risings in January 1932 , January 1933 and December 1933 , while highly regionalized and easily suppressed , provided evidence of the Republic 's failure to embrace a large part of the Spanish lower class and at the same time helped convince many middle-class Spaniards that Republican democracy was the breeding ground of disorder and revolution .
12 If anyone feels the Lord prompting them to help meet this financial outlay please see Rosina Kilpatrick or myself .
13 Margaret Charlwood will be taking a workshop session showing the Medau approach and would like to hear from anyone wishing to attend — especially those with cars who would be willing to help transport some disabled class members .
14 Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits .
15 I for one will be approaching my MP to see what they can do to help end this appalling threat .
16 Test-match broadcasting and his writing helped bind many personal wounds .
17 It was not always easy to concentrate , as distant explosions and nearby arguments in Arabic disturbed our peace , but it was something to help pass many long hours .
18 Central Council is very grateful to all those who donated prizes or sold tickets to help reach this excellent result .
19 Market research is the first place you go to help solve this initial problem .
20 The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action .
21 The mass picket helped justify such subsequent developments as more mobile squads of police , greater mutual aid between forces and the introduction of the Employment Act 1980 which outlawed secondary picketing and allowed the police to determine the maximum size of the picket .
22 So what do you want to do take that little dress or not ?
23 And while with me doth dwell this wearied ghost ,
24 Structure exists at various levels of consciousness ( or unconsciousness ) and although its relationship to mundane ‘ reality ’ ( the Marxist ‘ infrastructure ’ whose ultimate importance Lévi-Strauss periodically acknowledges ) is often tangential and tenuous , it helps resolve such fundamental contradictions and antinomies as that between nature and culture , self-interest and the common good , and , more immediately , certain basic conflicts inherent in particular forms of social organization .
25 But later , he lets slip another recent dinner date — with Andrew Lloyd Webber , Trevor Nunn and Richard Eyre .
26 In a bizarre interview , Lindi St Clair , alias Miss Whiplash , lets slip some titillating details about her accountant clients .
27 A fabulous package which helps organise those chaotic lists of ideas or prioritised jobs .
28 ‘ I do think that public concern over the leniency of the original sentence has been assuaged and in that sense I suppose some justice has been done . ’
29 I do think some formal education could start sooner , but I would n't want you or the listeners to think that nursery education and formal education are one and the same .
30 I do think some formal education could start sooner , but I would n't want you or the listeners to think that nursery education and formal education are one and the same .
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