Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then the director had to make changes as the backers insisted that the story of an impoverished farmer galvanizing a group of the unemployed into helping make a success of things was combined with a more conventional sex angle . |
| 2 | Can we make , can we just please make make a final point . |
| 3 | Two quick-thinking staff at Higher Broughton Branch have been rewarded for helping foil a possible £25,000 card swindle . |
| 4 | ‘ Sayeth the protector — and pray God he may be a protector ! — that the king doth lack a playfellow ? ’ |
| 5 | Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] helped build a new meeting-room above Stringer 's laboratory in Blackfriars . |
| 6 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 7 | He also studied under the successful architect Isaac Ware [ q.v. ] whom he helped prepare a new edition of Lord Burlington 's Fabbriche Antiche , a book of engravings from the collection of Palladio drawings belonging to Lord Burlington ( Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington , q.v . ) . |
| 8 | As well as this , in August we helped orchestrate a series of practical workshops at the London Print Workshop . |
| 9 | A 96 helped salvage a draw at Sydney after Bradman 's 340 not out had taken NSW to 713 for 6 , and a 60 against Queensland and 87 against the strong 1928–29 MCC bowling raised his prospects . |
| 10 | SHARP-eyed post room worker Steve Kelly helped prevent a possible £500,000 fraud after spotting a batch of credit cards in Royal Bank window envelopes . |
| 11 | His decisive handling of affairs at the outbreak of war in 1914 helped avert a financial crisis , and he was invited to remain in office beyond the normal two years . |
| 12 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 13 | Michel Perie , the boisterous young Toulon prop whose domination of Pascal Ondarts helped provide a platform for his side 's victory , holds aloft the Championship trophy . |
| 14 | It was work completed in Alaska which helped provide a clue to the nature of the problem at BA-1 , explains head of production technology Lindsay Brown . |
| 15 | Thanks to all the teachers from Inner Kent who helped provide a lovely tea at the training day . |
| 16 | But the Moray Firth experiments were only possible after the naturalist Dr David Bellamy helped secure a donation from the Co-operative Wholesale Society . |
| 17 | The success was the Metro-Cammell Class 156 , which helped create a new-style hourly Anglia-North West service and transform domestic Scottish and Welsh services . |
| 18 | The Scots spirit of liberty , frustrated at home , had been exported to magnify the noble principles that helped create a new world across the wide Atlantic . |
| 19 | It was Robson 's return four games ago that helped spark a maximum haul of 12 points . |
| 20 | A 50% increase in the sales team to 9,000 helped spark a 124% profits surge to £6.3m in the six months to September 12 . |
| 21 | Erm John said he informed me he he 'd stand for Monk again and he I told him to write write a . |
| 22 | Two CWMBRAN staff took part in a 24 hour sponsored famine which helped raise a total of £324 . |
| 23 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 24 | Two policemen who helped convict a fraudulent investment consultant have been given certificates of commendation . |
| 25 | A COVENTRY schoolgirl who helped form a theatre company at the age of 14 and took a play to Russia on a 10-day tour two years later could soon be working at the National Theatre . |
| 26 | Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions . |
| 27 | In the middle of his harrowing report he let slip a sentence , and we hear from that monster of objectivity inside every artist who sees everything as grist to the mill . |
| 28 | One description of the typical witch declares as highly suspect ‘ women which be commonly old , lame , blear-eied , pale , fowle and full of wrinkles ; poore , sullen , superstitious , and papists ; or such as knowe no religion : in whose drousie minds the divell doth goten a fine seat ’ . |
| 29 | The feelings may be imagined of the pupil who rashly let fall a slighting reference to Sohrab and Rustum , to be answered by Lewis 's brandishing an old regimental sword of his brother 's which stood in the corner of his room and shouting , ‘ The sword must settle this ! ’ |
| 30 | A further detail which supports the view that let evokes the lifting of all obstacles to the event denoted by the infinitive and concomitant actualization of the latter is the tendency for let to form a tight unit with the infinitives of certain verbs : ( 222 ) Kreisler let fall a further heavy hint . |