Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 2 | Fold the sides into the pleats and bring them to lay side by side along the top edge of the swag , pinning and handstitching them securely in position , as previously planned . |
| 3 | Second , Compact involves students in setting and monitoring their own goals and hence encourages them to take responsibility for their own success or failure . |
| 4 | It helps pupils express emotions and explore personal feelings : it encourages them to make sense of different situations and different points of view , to practise negotiating successfully with others , and to cope with — and resolve — new situations . |
| 5 | Do you want me to take advantage of it ? ’ |
| 6 | Or do you want me to wreak havoc on the supper tables ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In other words , ’ said Julius in a tight voice , ‘ although this is my house , you do n't want me to set foot in that room . ’ |
| 8 | She did n't want me to get work at the colliery , and she had cousins in Limehouse — the Williamses , in Three Colt Street . ’ |
| 9 | You do want me to make love to you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do you want me to make love to you , Luce ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Leonora , ’ began Penry , sounding weary , ‘ Melanie did n't want me to make love to her . |
| 12 | In reality most of the complaints came from those whose nature made them dislike change at any time , while the comments of other critics had a political bias . |
| 13 | ‘ That Francis expected me to buy Sleet from Leon . ’ |
| 14 | We will encourage parents on income support to claim maintenance by allowing them to keep part of it before benefit is cut . |
| 15 | Encourage regular visits to the lavatory , help the person take their mind off their depression by encouraging them to take part in the activities of the Home . |
| 16 | A LEADING independent accountant has warned funeral directors against misleading claims encouraging them to take advantage of a tax loophole which could see them reclaiming up to 7,200 per year in VAT . |
| 17 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 18 | The way to change the situation is by harnessing staff expertise and encouraging them to become part of the process of customer service . ’ |
| 19 | Radio waves are useful as we can make them carry information by modulating them — for example , changing the amplitude of the fluctuations so that the change represents information . |
| 20 | Until finally , about lunchtime she achieved a state of resignation : you could n't make someone love you if they did n't , and you could n't make them accept love from you if they did n't want it . |
| 21 | They visited the homes of the women , talked to husbands , fathers and fathers-in-law who did not want them to take part in any struggle , and they urged the women themselves to assert themselves . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman will know that we have recently announced a £10 million programme to provide grants to local authorities to enable them to give priority to buses through the construction of bus lanes and by giving priority to buses at traffic lights . |
| 23 | Marketing for Directors — a two-day programme specifically designed for managing directors , CEOs and executive board members to enable them to set marketing in its corporate perspective . |
| 24 | ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’ |
| 25 | Some crispers now have sufficient controlled environment storage to enable them to take delivery of most of their supplies at harvest time . |
| 26 | Thereupon the applicants , who had been unable to plead justification as defence in the libel action , applied to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) , as the court to whom the implied undertaking had been given by B. , to vary the undertaking to permit B. , who was anxious to co-operate , to disclose to them the authority 's documents in the interests of justice to enable them to plead justification with full particularity and in the expectation that admissible evidence would become available to support the plea at trial of the action . |
| 27 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 28 | One of the key issues at the conference had been the question of providing financial incentives to industrializing Third-World countries , notably India and China , to enable them to abandon use of ozone-depleting chemicals in favour of benign , but more expensive , alternatives . |
| 29 | Four southern African states have agreed on measures to enable them to resume trading in ivory . |
| 30 | In several studies of small groups , Bales and his colleagues were able to generate a list of frequent behaviour categories to enable them to observe behaviour in a way that was relevant and consistent . |