Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The editor 's look suggests displeasure , but I am too elated to worry and with a skip I whirl into the revolving doors and out laughing into the night.But now , what a fiasco ! |
| 2 | And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday . |
| 3 | The police instead of ignoring it , decided to try and amongst with other agencies , you know the cleaning service and that , to try and er do a project . |
| 4 | ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment . |
| 5 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
| 6 | If I could get my applicant , you see if , let's say we pay somebody , I du n no fifty , sixty quid a week , fifty quid a week to come and for , two mornings , three mornings , or whatever that 'll then give me enough time to contact the applicants and then ma , maybe maybe two stroke three sales extra per month . |
| 7 | Yet financial improvement was slow to come and in 1936 the Financial Advisers set out to ‘ ascertain the weight of meat consumed by staff and visitors ’ . |
| 8 | There is one subject of philosophical curiosity to be found in Edinburgh , which no other city has to shew ; a college of the deaf and dumb , who are taught to speak , to read , to write and to practice arithmetick by a gentleman , whose name is Braidwood . |
| 9 | Otherwise you may find yourself later , as you sweep along on the actual business of writing , gradually drifting into producing quite another sort of book than the one you set out to write and in consequence disappointing readers ' expectations which at the beginning you had gone to trouble to arouse . |
| 10 | This is a fascinating place to work and during my first year here the business has continued to develop . |
| 11 | We want it to give them back their self respect , help acclimatise them to work and above all to give them something positive and worthwhile to show an employer . |
| 12 | Anna Martin showed that some working class women also distrusted state intervention , not on principle , as was the case with middle class feminists , but because they feared its effects on their husbands ' incentives to work and on their own pivotal position in the family . |
| 13 | I believe it can be made to work and with the background of the proposed Amendment and what b can be done by Parliament as a result of that , that can be a sensible way of proceeding . |
| 14 | It is a tale full of interest , and it reveals an attitude to work and to the Service that makes pleasant reading ( unhappily some authors give the impression they had a less than fulfilling time while in the RAF ) . |
| 15 | No party would now dare go to the voters promising a prohibition on women 's right to work and to a wage . |
| 16 | His light-hearted and amusing banter hid a serious and thoughtful approach to work and to life in general , and one became aware that it was a privilege to know and work with him , both at Woolley Hall and in the early days of Bretton where he came one day each week to teach painting . |
| 17 | For consensus decision-making to work and for an atmosphere of trust to develop between managers and subordinates , there must be an erosion of status-consciousness . |
| 18 | Moreover , it will be guilty of giving succour , however tacit , to a regime where people continue to be deprived of their democratic rights , to suffer and to be killed , purely on the grounds of the colour of their skin . |
| 19 | The number of long-term unemployed has continued to increase and in January totalled 2,286 . |
| 20 | Relatively ‘ self-contained ’ and cohesive social groups such as peasants and church-going Catholics , generally knowing whom to trust and with a low level of organization in the NSDAP , were now often unrestrained in their attacks . |
| 21 | In contrast , total and LDL cholesterol concentrations did appear to influence platelet sensitivity to adrenaline and to a lesser extent ADP ( Hassall et al , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | Do n't go to books passively , expecting simply to absorb and to be informed . |
| 23 | Further pressure caused Mariners ' handling to deteriorate and with three penalties successfully kicked by Bannatyne , 'Mere were 13–0 up by halftime . |
| 24 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 25 | The God who is hidden to sight and beyond human understanding is also the God made manifest in our earthly environment . |
| 26 | Economics also dictates change , especially the need for large businesses to innovate and to be entrepreneurs . |
| 27 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 28 | Wills J. , at p. 344 , said : " Parliament has … given to a person desirous of opposing , … power to appear and to be heard … |
| 29 | There has to be a willingness among all the members of such a group to be prepared to give and take , to offer criticism and receive it , to encourage and to be encouraged etc . ’ |
| 30 | He also grasped the opportunity to synthesise and in 1913 published The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements . |