Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [pron] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a stylish reversible fleece jacket — you can either have the fleece on the outside , with the Sans Compromis logo emblazoned on the back , or reverse it to have the Tactel fabric as the outer . |
| 2 | Leave them natural or paint them to suit the rest of the decoration . |
| 3 | Finishing every last morsel on your plate wo n't make your hair curl or do anything to help the starving children in India . |
| 4 | Had n't she already acknowledged to herself that it was better that they did n't touch — or do anything to aggravate a volatile situation ? |
| 5 | According to the circumstances , nurses either help patients to cope with enforced dependence ( short- or long-term ) , or help them to regain the level of independence to which they were accustomed prior to the episode of ill-health . |
| 6 | ‘ It does not address the daily needs of the majority , or help them to have the resources to survive . ’ |
| 7 | Many eastern approaches are passive in that they aim to empty the mind , or help us to reach the stage whereby we become observers of our own thoughts as if we were somehow separate from them . |
| 8 | His article outlines the failure of research programmes in Argentina , Peru and Colombia during the last fifty years ( p.27 ) but does not explain it or help us to find a way round the problem . |
| 9 | Hard scientific evidence must either help the police to use hypnosis safely or lead them to reject the technique altogether . |
| 10 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 11 | Then Lydia , who was part of the group , had a go at me and said you had to put your whole being into Christ 's hands and trust him to do the rest . |
| 12 | And trust you to like the one person you can never have , she mused . |
| 13 | PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark . |
| 14 | Or are you going to start getting even less money than you do now , and want me to take a cut in the housekeeping ? |
| 15 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 16 | ‘ They are saying to the council that they 've got to listen to how their employees and the public feel , and not to impose the cuts of central government on their workers and expect them to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 17 | To tell these in their own right and expect them to retain the charm they got from their larger setting would be a terrible error , an error to which Tolkien would be more sensitive than any man alive . |
| 18 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 19 | In fact it is just as misleading to ignore the packaging and expect someone to assess the new situation without any help . |
| 20 | But I do n't think Mr Drennan … ’ he shot a quick look in Malachi 's direction , before turning a sympathetic face to Bull O'Malley ‘ I do n't think Mr Drennan intended that he should ask for your daughter and expect you to make a decision on the spur of the moment . |
| 21 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 22 | Make contact with the chairman of the Uses Committee and press him to place the church in the hands of the local office of one of the national estate agents . |
| 23 | To ensure an even finish , place a board over them and tap it to level the cobbles . |
| 24 | You start out with good intentions , helping with the homework , making it fun : you lay out the chocolate drops on the giant musical stave and challenge them to find the note ‘ B ’ and eat it : you run supportively alongside the wobbling bicycle , getting your ankles chewed up by sharp pedals . |
| 25 | The beliefs and behaviour of remote cultures challenge most profoundly our own ethnocentric experience and assumptions , and compel us to recognize the amazing variety and versatility of human social arrangements , moral standards , and cosmologies . |
| 26 | Screw this in , and remove it to create the thread . |
| 27 | Cut the bad stuff out and er put the new timber in and shape it to fit the existing door casing , architrave and |
| 28 | A sander will be required to remove excess filler and shape it to match the existing timber . |
| 29 | A sander will be required to remove excess filler and shape it to match the existing timber . |
| 30 | But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view . |