Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can we make , can we just please make make a final point . |
| 2 | Two quick-thinking staff at Higher Broughton Branch have been rewarded for helping foil a possible £25,000 card swindle . |
| 3 | Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] helped build a new meeting-room above Stringer 's laboratory in Blackfriars . |
| 4 | He also studied under the successful architect Isaac Ware [ q.v. ] whom he helped prepare a new edition of Lord Burlington 's Fabbriche Antiche , a book of engravings from the collection of Palladio drawings belonging to Lord Burlington ( Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington , q.v . ) . |
| 5 | SHARP-eyed post room worker Steve Kelly helped prevent a possible £500,000 fraud after spotting a batch of credit cards in Royal Bank window envelopes . |
| 6 | His decisive handling of affairs at the outbreak of war in 1914 helped avert a financial crisis , and he was invited to remain in office beyond the normal two years . |
| 7 | Thanks to all the teachers from Inner Kent who helped provide a lovely tea at the training day . |
| 8 | The Scots spirit of liberty , frustrated at home , had been exported to magnify the noble principles that helped create a new world across the wide Atlantic . |
| 9 | It was Robson 's return four games ago that helped spark a maximum haul of 12 points . |
| 10 | Two policemen who helped convict a fraudulent investment consultant have been given certificates of commendation . |
| 11 | One description of the typical witch declares as highly suspect ‘ women which be commonly old , lame , blear-eied , pale , fowle and full of wrinkles ; poore , sullen , superstitious , and papists ; or such as knowe no religion : in whose drousie minds the divell doth goten a fine seat ’ . |
| 12 | The feelings may be imagined of the pupil who rashly let fall a slighting reference to Sohrab and Rustum , to be answered by Lewis 's brandishing an old regimental sword of his brother 's which stood in the corner of his room and shouting , ‘ The sword must settle this ! ’ |
| 13 | this is a structural change , what you could do or the easiest thing would be to do was just to incorporate a dummy variable , right , if you incorporated a dummy variable to a erm and to explain the and to take out the effect of structural change , right , er in that dummy inclusive model , right , all the diagnostic test statistics were okay , right , you would use , you would , therefore , use that , that particular model what we might do is just see if that is the case erm so if you come out of er diagnostics , work towards the data processing environment and generate a dummy variable right , so if you go into the erm data processing environment if it 's in the er sort of process plot option what we 'll do create a dummy variable call it D and let D pull zero press the return key and then edit D oh and if you just set erm observations for |
| 14 | Vi let go a shuddering breath . |
| 15 | It was true that Miss Devenish let slip a good deal of fragmentary information about Tolby . |
| 16 | In ‘ Jimmy Munro 's Troubles ’ ( Ex. 1.8 ) Corvan uses the banality of its phrasing , repetitions , sequences and harmonic structure to help construct a mock-simpleton persona which enables him to cloak the bite of his social criticism in humour ; he plays at ‘ acting the fool ’ , in tortuous verbal constructions and juxtapositions of the serious and the trivial — just as the ‘ Bow , Wow , Wow ’ song originally did — but the real problems of railway accidents , rent and ragged clothes turn the joke around . |
| 17 | There were also fears that Japan planned to do just what America does : use defence spending and research to help build a civil aerospace industry , and thus beat Boeing . |
| 18 | The father opposed Hitler and spent a year in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied France , then returned to Berlin in 1945 to help build a new Germany . |
| 19 | Only 16% planned to spend the lot , half of them to help buy a new home . |
| 20 | Tyneside Elswick Young Farmers ' group has donated £141 to the Penshaw Riding for the Disabled Association to help buy a mounting ramp for disabled riders . |
| 21 | CHAMPIONS of the disabled are launching a £30,000 appeal to help fund a new shop mobility scheme in Birkenhead . |
| 22 | Instead , they are likely to suggest that some methods of discipline can be used to help prevent a young person absconding from care so long as this does them no harm . |
| 23 | But in the mid-1980s , a 34-year-old advertising executive earning a substantial living who chucks it aside to help forge a Utopian society is an anachronism , more like a character in a Peter Carey novel than real life . |
| 24 | AU this helped provide a favourable climate for imperial sport — Test matches , rugby tours , and ultimately the institution of the Empire Games itself . |
| 25 | ( At particular historical periods political ideology helped provide a unifying force for labour , instilling a sense of perspective and purpose beyond the mere rectification of current grievances . ) |
| 26 | MI5 was then advised that Crabb had presumably drowned and was asked to help provide a suitable cover story . |
| 27 | To help provide a local response to a global problem . |
| 28 | In 1984 a Company was formed , Steamport 1984 Ltd. , to acquire the site from British Rail , with the support of a large group of members , who took a deep breath , and dug into their pockets to help finance a substantial portion of the initial costs , and with the aid of a bank loan , which is now well over half way repaid , the premises became truly home to the exhibits , both privately and society owned . |
| 29 | He had agreed to make a financial contribution of $50,000 from the family trust to help finance a social club to be named after him . |
| 30 | Now as then , Gielgud is acute , highly intelligent and concerned to help draw a full portrait . |