Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 2 | Mr Cruickshank has spent just over three years in charge of the Scottish health service and has helped set it on the Government 's controversial road to self-governing hospitals and fund-holding family doctor practices . |
| 3 | The £800,000 signing from Nottingham Forest then paid tribute to the man who has helped transform his fiery character and enable him to take such a setback calmly in his stride — player-boss Francis . |
| 4 | ‘ All that has happened to me has helped open my eyes and I am still young enough to put the past firmly behind me . ’ |
| 5 | This has helped make it a big importer of garbage . |
| 6 | A close association with Derek Jarman has helped establish her current arthouse ascendancy , but she reached her widest audience with Your Cheatin' Heart on television . |
| 7 | He has helped guide us carefully through some difficult decisions and seen through the establishment of the pastoral team and the purchase of the Camphill building . |
| 8 | In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage . |
| 9 | He believes that ScotRail 's 9 per cent increase in revenue over the past year has helped strengthen his case for a buy-out . |
| 10 | Many of these accidents simply need n't happen and Huggy 's Home Safety Tips are designed to help prevent them . |
| 11 | The Eclipse is designed to help make your cooking better by making the process easier . |
| 12 | There are a whole range of features designed to help save you time and money — and all are exclusive to contract customers . |
| 13 | I want to know and I want to help make it happen . ’ |
| 14 | Officials were in touch with four banks , two of them Japanese , Sanwa and Daiwa , both tenants in the Commercial Union building , to try to help ease their problems . |
| 15 | She needs constant care , but she also needs people with patience and understanding to help improve her quality of life |
| 16 | If the manager signs off the employee 's plan as reasonable , then it follows that the manager has to help make it come true . |
| 17 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 18 | Perhaps we should all start trying , since he is the only one who has dared raise his standard against her . |
| 19 | ( 61 ) That may be the first time in my life that a man has dared insult me . |
| 20 | So erm , if anybody wants to help contact me . |
| 21 | When she heard my name given out , she was certain that against all the odds it was the boy she had played with — and tried to make understand her frantic sign language and European gibberish — more than 40 years earlier . |
| 22 | Much more could be done to help assimilate our refugees — for example , help with schooling and specialist support . |
| 23 | I would like readers to know just how serious the threat from opencast mining is , what it could mean to the landscape , nature and communities of the Gwendraeth , and what they can do to help prevent it . |
| 24 | To Eric I say a heartfelt merci bien for everything you 're doing at Leeds , and for everything you may yet do to help improve my love life . |
| 25 | Some toothpastes are specially made to help keep your gums healthy , as they contain ingredients which fight bacteria . |
| 26 | It is certainly worth a couple of days training to help improve your effectiveness . |
| 27 | Several of the engineering companies visited did recruit their temporary workers on simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 28 | I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were . |
| 29 | Before then , despite a number of chances , this game had nil all written all over it ; United did have their chances , they hit the post , Steve Foster and Martin Foyle both went close but the ball never appeared to be going into the back of the net . |
| 30 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |