Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you have to pull it pull it tight . |
| 2 | The moment was too full of terror , of crashes and grunts , for her to hear the door unlocking behind her , and to hear it swing inwards . |
| 3 | She wants this doll , well Julie got it yesterday and said I phoned up , she said you 've got ta listen to this she said I 've just put a battery in when you want to hear it cry . |
| 4 | I shut the door behind me , because I do n't want to hear it crash as I walk down the path . |
| 5 | It also needs a second additive to help it dissolve and raises the vapour pressure of petrol , which can cause havoc with a car 's Fuel pumping system . |
| 6 | Tiny protein structures protrude — like flagellae to help it move and pili to attach itself to surfaces . |
| 7 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 8 | Britain has already announced it has extended a £25m ‘ know-how ’ fund to Poland to help it cope with reform . |
| 9 | Then the trade deficit will make it hard to lower interest rates without undermining sterling , while at the same time reinforcing industry 's demands for cheaper money to help it compete . |
| 10 | Among problems raising doubts over the ‘ special relationship ’ before Mr Major 's arrival was a claim that Airbus Industrie , the consortium which includes British Aerospace , had received unfair subsidies to help it compete with American aircraft builders . |
| 11 | Free flow : dust your scales with flour when you 're weighing treacle to help it flow off a little more easily . |
| 12 | Trafford education authority has received about £13 million in the past two years to help it reorganise and improve its schools . |
| 13 | The Namibian government has turned to South Africa to help it prevent illegal fishing in its territorial waters . |
| 14 | He thought it quite possible that Pike had starved the horse to help it recover from its leg injury . |
| 15 | Singapore may have to look to China to help it meet its labour needs in future . |
| 16 | The US House of Representatives approved on March 10 a US$4,100 million emergency spending bill containing US$650 million in aid for Israel to help it meet expenses caused by the Gulf war . |
| 17 | The archer fish is here using water as a tool , much as the ant-lion uses sand , to help it capture its prey . |
| 18 | Strategy Europe , the environmental public affairs group , is looking for an ad agency or marketing consultancy to help it promote an audio cassette entitled ‘ Global Warming — the debate ’ . |
| 19 | Optical chainstore Specialeyes has brought in a new agency to help it shrug off its ‘ cheap ’ image and to break into the youth and pensioners markets . |
| 20 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a COSE desktop toolkit . |
| 21 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a Common Open Software Environment desktop toolkit . |
| 22 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 23 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 24 | The caterpillar is cleverly disguised to help it hide among the leaves . |
| 25 | For the first time in a decade a Conservative government has resorted to direct tax increases to help it bridge the gap between its spending and its revenues . |
| 26 | This is the company or corporation which , to help it survive , needs to devise mechanisms for acquiring and appropriately responding to signals from the environment . |
| 27 | America gives Israel more than $2 billion a year to help it survive in a region where all its Arab neighbours , bar only Egypt , reject it . |
| 28 | Scissor-snip the bacon fat at intervals to help it release its fat . |
| 29 | Rather than going it alone , 3Com Corp , San Jose has picked Cascade Communications Corp to help it enter the Frame Relay market . |
| 30 | As you open up the throttle , you need to move to the front of the boat to help it rise on to the plane . |