Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] and [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also there was a cluster of messages on small adhesive labels , like the ones Boy had seen stuck in phone boxes near the railway station , and he bent down to look and read all of these . |
| 2 | It must have been a daunting task to know how to encompass and animate such an extensive and familiar subject , but the Royal College of Art , which was commissioned to organise and design the event , enlisted that most reliable of cultural populists , John Julius Norwich , to curate , and he has proved a model of Dimblebyan dependability , as well as introducing the commendably brief but informative and well laid-out catalogue . |
| 3 | So so we know roughly going up to get and make some stars and he 's going to put chains and like all round these stars . |
| 4 | In the US , some 500 companies sprang up to exploit and develop this new technology . |
| 5 | Referee David Axcell pointed to the penalty spot and Whitton stepped forward to score and send most of the fans in a 17,000 crowd home happy . |
| 6 | He wanted more money to be spent on broadcasting and a separate Ministry to be set up to direct and coordinate all information policy : this was the only way a minister would be able to deal with all the criticisms levelled at the broadcasters . |
| 7 | The article is set out to try and answer some of your questions and help you map out how best to set about producing and marketing without becoming involved in a contract should one be made available . |
| 8 | This was a restrained and early work from an architect renowned for his roguish style , who went on to shock and irritate many of his contemporaries but also to amaze and satisfy his clients . |
| 9 | Before we go on to illustrate and extend this model , there are one or two disclaimers to be made . |
| 10 | We see jobs being lost every week as our employers cut back to try and outbid each other not in the interests of defence of this country but purely because of political dogma . |
| 11 | 16.44 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 10 should discuss the possibility of multiple meanings in the texts studied and be taught how to recognise and describe some of them . |
| 12 | No approach to professional support and development , still less an account of ‘ good practice ’ , can afford not to identify and confront these . |
| 13 | With the authority and control characteristic of the highly acclaimed Headway course , Headway Advanced sets out to clarify and resolve those areas of language which remain problematic for advanced students , and which present a barrier to the fluency and accuracy they seek . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll be staying with a number of Japanese families so will have to learn how to communicate and become less of a gaijin ( foreigner ) , ’ he says . |
| 15 | A number of solutions have been put forward to try and overcome this problem . |
| 16 | A further one hundred questionnaires were sent out to develop and validate these vignettes , and an analysis of the questionnaires resulted in the development of eight distinct styles of information use , pupils matched to these eight styles by their teachers have been interviewed and differences in the way these pupils talked about tackling two assignments in different subjects are currently being analysed . |
| 17 | Erika , born after the smoke of the death camps had stopped drifting across Europe , wanted deeply to try and say this to dapper Uncle Karl , born before the smoke fouled the skies . |
| 18 | get back with sugar or can you nip up to shop and get some sugar ? |
| 19 | ( iv ) Pupils should learn how to recognise and describe some of the lexical , grammatical and organisational characteristics of different types of written texts , eg letters , tabloid and broadsheet newspapers , teenage magazines , specialist hobby periodicals , holiday brochures , travel books , instructions , playscripts . |