Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] you [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | skin up The Clinique Skin Survival Kit is handy for the gym , for travelling or just for helping you to keep the bathroom tidy . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 3 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 4 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 5 | Notice , too , that your choice between active or passive has the effect of enabling you to move the " actor " and the " acted upon " around in the sentence , most often either to the beginning or to the end ( as in the " Jane Austen " example above ) . |
| 6 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 7 | I was gon na ask you to pay a hundred but I 'll talk about that . |
| 8 | As for leaving you to sail the boat , what could possibly happen that you have n't handled before ? ’ |
| 9 | By helping you to select a surveyor and combining this with our own valuation report , we can also save you some money . |
| 10 | But presuppositions are essentially a tool rather than a nuisance — a way of expanding the power of your writing by enabling you to say a lot in a short space . |
| 11 | ( i ) it encourages both analysis and conciseness by forcing you to understand the similarities and differences between certain points . |
| 12 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 13 | I would like to follow up your article on the Letters page of April 's Woodworker by asking you to put the following question to your experts or readers . |
| 14 | Mr C. Jones , of Kingswood , Bristol , wins our first £25 prize by asking you to name the players in that time who have won the award with two different clubs . |
| 15 | He covers himself , see , by telling you to bank the money . |