Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 2 | Medical workers said the princess went out of her way to help dispel local superstition about the disease . |
| 3 | Yet Hornblower 's agonisings over thoughts of Barbara in the arms of her husband do verge on the sentimental and the hackneyed as Hornblower suffers ‘ a white hot wave of passion as he thought of her , slim and lovely , understanding and sweet ’ . |
| 4 | Much of his criticism does look back , although not necessarily in a particularly informed way : ‘ Realism historically has always been mainly the mode for reaching the vulgar , the great lump of people … |
| 5 | People of his generation do tend to regard £1000 as being rather a lot of money , although the rest of us realise that it will hardly keep your motor car in petrol for long . |
| 6 | But the power/ knowledge assumptions of his work do place him rather uncomfortably close to his post-structuralist prima-facie opponents . |
| 7 | All our w most of our money does come from the members themselves as you 've seen . |
| 8 | And this was not the moment to suggest that Emilia , with her refusal to let go of Cambridge , to be truly present in the parish , might herself be at fault . |
| 9 | During the treatment his back was x-rayed and this involved injecting an oil based substance into his spine to help show up the nerves . |
| 10 | erm and as you 'll be able to see from my introduction make do and mend was n't something that suddenly happened in nineteen thirty nine there were sections of society in which make do and mend was a permanent and not not particularly erm welcome fact of life . |
| 11 | Only when I had the body in my hand did see it was a goldcrest . |
| 12 | So the women in my book do emerge ; in the end they become the father … |
| 13 | Councillor Michael Hannon , deputy mayor , who represents the Orford area where the bomb attack took place in February , said : ‘ I intend to do everything in my power to help relocate these tanks . |
| 14 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 15 | But you ca n't love words without appreciating these aspects , and it would be a more civilised world if more of those who have to use words extensively in their work did love them . |
| 16 | CLERGYMEN have been condemned for failing in their duty to help stamp out under-age and open-air drinking in a Co Tyrone town . |
| 17 | It may , and does , tolerate considerable neglect of those symbols and stated beliefs , but those people who find the Free Presbyterian/DUP element petty in their refusal to help restore a Church of Ireland church or attend Remembrance Day services can not promote a coherent ideology which would justify their criticisms . |
| 18 | Its real value lies in its ability to help identify important characteristics which if taken into account will reduce the risks of innovation . |
| 19 | If the IB is serious in its wish to help restore democracy it must act now . |
| 20 | Initial test copies of the Earth Data System , which incorporates Boulder , Colorado-based Ellery software , began shipping in October 1992 , and are running on Hewlett workstations at five US locations including universities and research centres , for example enabling researchers analysing the Pacific Northwest to look at environmental data from their desktop to help forest managers to decide where to cut and replant trees without disrupting wildlife . |
| 21 | Cable needs supplementary machinery in his model to help explain why half-lines with two or more adjacent , rising degrees of stress never occur in " classical " OE verse ; the need for such supplements may indicate that his base theory is insufficiently constrained . |
| 22 | The majority of headteachers in our survey did see the library as a powerful aid to delivery of the curriculum , as well as an asset in furthering other school aims . |
| 23 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 24 | When the bitch growing bold , to my pocket does creep ; |
| 25 | Here , research into the attitudes of employed workers to their work does support a parallel . |
| 26 | Peters said : ‘ They threw everything at us and got nothing , whereas our small breaks to their half did produce points . |
| 27 | During the war the Cubist concept of the work of art as an autonomous , constructed object became more and more widespread and was to have a profound effect on the emergence of Purism , one of the pictorial styles to which Cubism helped give birth . |
| 28 | This would carry with it a responsibility on their part to help devise the tests , or at least to scrutinize their content . |
| 29 | He had then suggested she come with him to his house to help unload . |
| 30 | As an encouragement to them , my fellow officers and members of the parliamentary group called on our Government to help admit Yugoslavia to several international institutions to give greater credibility to the federal Government and greater respectability and authority to the name of Yugoslavia . |