Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb infin] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 2 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 3 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to try and remember everything the two of you said , right from the beginning . |
| 5 | ‘ I left lecturing to try and see what the big wide world had to offer , but things never worked out . |
| 6 | If the NCVQ was too narrow in its concern with those skill-based qualifications which satisfied employers , the local manager could only wait and see what the final outcome would be between the force of BTEC ( arguing for greater breadth and balance ) and NCVQ . |
| 7 | Theresa I 'm going to have to stop you and I 'm going to have stop you as well Sue and can I say that we 're going to need to wait and see what the Prime Minister has to say . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll go and give her the good news . ’ |
| 9 | things you see , so erm , I thought right well that 's it Ben can have the garage , I 'll go and buy her the flying circus , Joseph can have the bus and call it a day . |
| 10 | Erm Simon had a list Well we 'd come and see him the thirty first of January , Tony came to me to work on it today , and that 's not . |
| 11 | At each anniversary National Savings will write and say what the guaranteed rate is for the next 12 months . |