Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
| 2 | ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them . |
| 3 | skin up The Clinique Skin Survival Kit is handy for the gym , for travelling or just for helping you to keep the bathroom tidy . |
| 4 | Kenneth drove me here last Sunday after helping me to load the car with clothes , shoes , video recorder , sound equipment , books , photos , kettle , mug , hot-water-bottle ( never go anywhere without it ) and all the required paraphernalia of a season away from home . |
| 5 | Fennel can be bought as tea bags and one of these can be used instead of half a teaspoon and the bag left hanging in the tank for one day after using it to make the remedy . |
| 6 | This morning , he would n't take no for an answer , and , after urging her to consider the idea and bringing her out here as confidently as if the whole thing were quite settled in his mind , he was now taking the ground from under her feet by playing devil 's advocate . |
| 7 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 8 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 9 | Encouraging staff to appreciate the cost of information goes some way towards helping them to quantify the value of information . ’ |
| 10 | Preparing potatoes at the sink with her back turned to the child can be a helpful way of encouraging her to ignore the child during eating . |
| 11 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 12 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 13 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 14 | This is often the feeling the bereaved find most difficult to acknowledge , their anger against the dead person for abandoning them to face the world alone . |
| 15 | And Hill recognises he owes both his famous and late dad and his predecessor at Williams , Nigel Mansell , thanks for their efforts in helping him to land the chance he now has . |
| 16 | Writers of porn in the States have also been quick to acknowledge their role in helping us to face the epidemic . |
| 17 | Woosup Koh , managing director of IMS ( Scotland ) , paid tribute to the involvement of Locate in Scotland both in bringing the company to Scotland and in helping it to complete the deal in less than two months . |
| 18 | Most sections of the left were interested , not in stopping the war , but in using it to swing the balance of social power away from Britain 's traditional rulers . |
| 19 | The father 's real purpose in allowing me to visit the family was not so much to get help , but to recoup the £40 he had spent on satanist scriptures , which he wanted to sell to me . |
| 20 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 21 | It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment , and in believing it to undermine the opt-out . |
| 22 | Attlee , for his part , was equally strong in urging me to accept the majority opinion . |
| 23 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 24 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 25 | That he was regretting his impulse in inviting her to spend the weekend with him was obvious . |
| 26 | The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets . |
| 27 | Infuriated by what she called the actions of a wicked little sneak , Smallfry had forced him to eat every last crumb of the cake without allowing him to clean the dirt and animal saliva from its surface . |
| 28 | As for leaving you to sail the boat , what could possibly happen that you have n't handled before ? ’ |
| 29 | rule quickly by helping us to abolish the community charge and then the package will disappear altogether . |
| 30 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |