Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In order to create sufficient headroom within the studio , it was necessary to remove an existing tie-beam which spanned between two timber posts that helped to support the roof structure and to adapt and re-site this member at a higher level , just below the soffit of the ceiling ( Plate 11 ) . |
| 32 | They tried to drive the adult peasants into paying their taxes , instead of coaxing them . |
| 33 | She tried to light the gas fire but dropped the matches all over the hearthrug . |
| 34 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 35 | As suggested in Chapter 1 , these measures were not , in themselves , particularly successful in reducing unemployment although they possibly helped to promote the housing boom of the mid- and late 1930s . |
| 36 | The Company were already building ships at their yard which was sited opposite the Customs House and the dry dock helped to consolidate the repair side of the business . |
| 37 | Fire investigators say arsonists built a bonfire with desks and chairs and tried to smash the burglar alarm at the Penwood First School . |
| 38 | He helped to establish the Palestine Conservatoire of Music and was chairman of its board of directors 1932–47 . |
| 39 | Later , in 1910 , he helped to establish the Liverpool repertory theatre . |
| 40 | Mr Salumäe helped to establish the Information Department in 1988 founding the magazine Eesti Kirik and producing regular programmes on religious themes for both radio and television . |
| 41 | Announcements were made on Dec. 19 designed to revive the housing market , which was currently severely depressed due largely to persistently high mortgage interest rates ( despite some reduction in the course of 1991 ) and the accompanying spate of repossessions . |
| 42 | He went up to Cambridge in 1826 and read Divinity ; while there he helped to found the Jesus Lane Sunday School . |
| 43 | The Countess of Selkirk , finding her house surrounded by ‘ horrid-looking wretches ’ , sensibly agreed and when the butler tried to hide the coffee pot and teapot , still damp from breakfast , she ordered that these , too , be handed over . |
| 44 | Ranald knelt to pull the hearth stones into place and build her a fire of peat from the fallen roof . |
| 45 | But as the value and importance of the trade became clear , some companies moved to meet the milk importers ' requirements . |
| 46 | They were approaching a point where the wharf walk was bridged over by scaffolding erected to repair the back wall of Benson 's furniture shop . |
| 47 | By contrast , Mr Major was a novice Foreign Secretary whose skills and stamina were tested to breaking point when — alone — he tried to modify the draft South African statement in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 48 | By contrast , Mr Major was a novice Foreign Secretary whose skills and stamina were tested to breaking point when — alone — he tried to modify the draft South African statement in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 49 | Neighbours said she had Christopher in her arms as she tried to open the first-floor window . |
| 50 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 51 | She tried to remember the Hudson River as she had travelled down it by train , and the weather seemed constant although she knew it was n't . |
| 52 | They tried to reach the River Po , which they hoped to cross so that they could eventually get back to Germany . |
| 53 | Ian Donohue who helped to design the tour t-shirt said : ‘ We will be the first intake of graduates into industry in the 1993 and want to take a first-hand look at what 's happening with the single market . ’ |
| 54 | RO You helped to design the Salzburg theatre . |
| 55 | I tried to explore the problems Mrs Singh would have in attempting to be a fully participating parent but the educational psychologist seemed to feel that this was a problem common to many Cedars parents . |
| 56 | During the French revolution , the revolutionaries tried to eliminate the minority languages ( Provençal , Basque , Corsican , Flemish , Alsatian , Celtic ) as the instruments of reaction and superstition . |
| 57 | They were said to have manhandled Hakkari province governor Erdogan Ulker as he tried to inspect the Yesilova camp on May 1 , following Fisk 's report . |
| 58 | Police launched an investigation into Henry 's death the next morning … they talked to party-goers and tried to trace the supply chain of the drug . |
| 59 | When Nintendo tried to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team a huge row broke out over possible Japanese ownership . |
| 60 | We gave more funding to the citizens advice bureaux : the Government even tried to axe the NACAB grant , but had to back down . |