Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She waited until he went to pass her to reach the door and leave at the end of the night . |
| 32 | They coincided with Mrs Yaxlee 's own ideas closely enough for the latter to trust her to do the shopping while at the same time failing to include her in the invitation which she so palpably wanted . |
| 33 | But Labour councillor Gordon Plummer said it would be difficult to find anyone to take the building on on an annual tenancy until the future of the cattle market nearby was sorted out . |
| 34 | I do not have to observe anything to answer the question , ‘ Are you in pain ? ’ : pain is a feeling . |
| 35 | His comic-opera face contorted , his moustache drooped and he gripped his rifle with both hands to motion us to open the back of the vehicle . |
| 36 | Prince Saud al-Feisal , the Foreign Minister , has been calling upon the MPs to urge them to put the future of their country before any factional ambitions . |
| 37 | He wrote : ‘ Dear Mr Fallon , I have been requested by the council to urge you to ask the Government to assist local authorities in the collection of essential poll tax revenue . ’ |
| 38 | I mean I , I , I do n't drink a lot , I mean maybe after I 've been out in the hills you have got to drink something to replace the sweat , but I 'm not a great drinker and I do n't , I do n't smoke and I , I do n't like discos or anything like that |
| 39 | If Wigan youngster Grindley can produce one impressive lap of the Olympic Stadium in the Golden Gala meeting , selectors seem likely to pick him to run the event in the same arena in a fortnight 's time . |
| 40 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 41 | The accumulation on the ridges and swells is aided by the presence there of seaweed or flotsam , which tends to hinder the flow of the tide and to cause it to deposit the material it is carrying . |
| 42 | The result is to cause us to love the theatre : ‘ the play recuperates and intensifies our need for these ceremonies , even though we do not believe in them , and performs them , carefully marked out for us as frauds , for our continued consumption ’ . |
| 43 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 44 | The panel pattern template is wanted primarily to enable you to mark the ripstop . |
| 45 | Gradually mix in about 300ml/½ pint of warm water to enable you to gather the dough into a ball with your hands — it should be soft and slightly sticky . |
| 46 | Sometimes if the garment is n't a fitted one , it is possible to add a few stitches to enable you to match the pattern at the seams . |
| 47 | Sometimes , he can go too far ; he may be anxious to make a sale and make statements which are simply untrue in an effort to try to induce you to buy the product . |
| 48 | The creation of Job Clubs for redundant members is providing a most valuable lifeline to help them to solve the problem of coping with the trauma and making a constructive approach in the search for employment . |
| 49 | I remember hearing Hardnut their solicitor — saying that Dersingham had spent a fortune trying to trace someone to leave the place to . ’ |
| 50 | It 's probably unrealistic to expect you to avoid the sun altogether on holiday , but you must use a sunscreen with a factor of at least 15 and not go any lower . |
| 51 | Part A of Exercise 10 is to help you to discover the subject from the recognition of possible clues . |
| 52 | If we are dealing with a regression to what may be a former lifetime , then , having asked the patient to go back to a period with which his subconscious mind feels comfortable , I like to help him to create the picture of his former personality little by little . |
| 53 | Cos I thought that was a with a utmost difficulty and he has to get his little daughter on Sunday to help him to clean the place . |
| 54 | She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness . |
| 55 | and she , to help her to run the country she 's got a parliament |
| 56 | Given this information as used in the treatment of errors , there are indications that it may also be effective to apply it to aid the reduction of the list of candidate strings in word positions where no error has been detected . |
| 57 | I think that generally organisations are squeezing out a lot of fat at that level simply because they 're finding more efficient ways to organise themselves to do the work . |
| 58 | ‘ As I 've said before , it 's not really realistic to expect us to win the league but the others have to try to catch us first . |
| 59 | Roy Parker closes the book by reiterating the case for research : stressing that its ultimate purpose must be to help us to improve the quality of life of children generally and of some of the most disadvantaged in particular . |
| 60 | In this discussion , however , we have found it necessary to turn to ‘ real-time ’ evidence ( Patterson , 1860 ; Staples , 1898 ) in order to help us to locate the direction of change . |