Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 2 | What has happened , in fact , is that Cutler has been forced to try and squeeze together a neo-Benjaminian theory of productive forces and a picture of productive relations which is positively Adorn Ian ! |
| 3 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 4 | AUSTRALIAN doctors have successfully frozen and thawed out a human embryo before planting it in a womb . |
| 5 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 6 | And Piers saw himself being seen and put on a clever sort of don't-mind-us smile . |
| 7 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 8 | Cover and sweat over a low heat for 4–5min , stirring once . |
| 9 | Cover and cook over a medium heat for 5min , then add the carrots and celery and cook for a further 5min . |
| 10 | ‘ It is clear we need to sell and bring in a fair amount of money before we can think of buying again . |
| 11 | ‘ It is clear that we need to sell and bring in a fair amount of money before we can think about buying again . ’ |
| 12 | The researcher , interested in different modes of communication , has to investigate the framework of thought within which decisions regarding what is legitimate are made and to explain how a particular group succeeds in making its ideology dominant in specific contexts . |
| 13 | Anyway , further down the Carter tour sheet , the band had an evening off in Atlanta and decided to go and check out a local restaurant which , they found , belonged to MICK JAGGER . |
| 14 | There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together . |
| 15 | Driven mad with grief by the loss of her child , she is thought to wander the streets weeping and crying out a ghostly memory of the pre-Conquest past . |
| 16 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |
| 17 | What I lose is my full ability to monitor and assess correctly a given situation . |
| 18 | Thus in Ibrams ( 1982 ) there had been considerable ill-treatment and violence by the deceased towards D and his girlfriend , and this led them eventually to plan and carry out a night-time raid on the deceased 's flat , during which they attacked and killed him . |
| 19 | The military visitors saw a prisoner in top boots , oilskin and sou'wester angling and pulling out a dripping clog . |
| 20 | In the auction room discretion must be used in bidding and the developer must have a clearly defined policy if the price exceeds the value calculated : he should either withdraw or bid only a marginal percentage above the calculated value . |
| 21 | Finally she turned and disappeared down a short flight of stairs . |
| 22 | TO peel the chestnuts , use a sharp knife to make a couple of slits in the skin of each one , put them in a saucepan , pour over enough boiling water to cover and simmer over a medium heat for about 5 minutes , then take them out a few at a time , drain and refresh them under running cold water . |
| 23 | Traditional Hawaiian society only began to fall apart when the godhead became detached from the environment : when Captain Cook arrived and ushered in a foreign idol , ubiquitous , omnipotent , immortal , but disembodied , absent , invisible . |
| 24 | It burns slowly when ignited and gives off a pleasing smell . |
| 25 | ‘ What I would n't agree with is someone coming over here to play and picking up a cheap cap . |
| 26 | Return to pan and stir over a low heat until it thickens and just comes to the boil . |
| 27 | This approach becomes difficult to use and understand when a large number of entities are displayed or when knowledge of the surfaces or solid parameters is necessary for the problem solution . |
| 28 | He put down the pair of pliers he was holding and picked up a heavy adjustable spanner . |
| 29 | The cans banged and rattled over a fuzzy soundtrack already overlaid with calls to Vassilis to move his head or Kostas to provide a cigarette . |
| 30 | Now we were rumbling and petarding up a steep brown-earth road with long , high convent walls on each side , towards a little square with a few dimly lit small shops and pollarded trees like headless ostriches perched on one knobbly leg . |