Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to go and get some potatoes . |
| 2 | But Byrd 's fate , a year after Detroit Lions lineman Mike Utley was paralysed by a neck injury , has brought into sharp focus the perilous nature of a sport based upon fierce physical contact between men — many of them giants — whose bodies were never intended to absorb and administer such punishment . |
| 3 | Well the only encouraging initiative that I can speak of for West Sussex is the establishment of the Rural Options Land Bank and er I 've undertaken to try and get some county commitment to this and that means some land . |
| 4 | Various groups within the party were formed to try and achieve particular objectives . |
| 5 | They have been heard to scream and leave frantic claw marks . |
| 6 | The projects are partially funded by the European Community 's Trade EDI Systems , TEDIS , programme , which is intended to encourage and promote increased EDI usage within the European Economic Area , covering the European Free Trade Association countries as well as the European Community . |
| 7 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 8 | We always want to see and hear confident actors . |
| 9 | Lilian Hatton 's got more coats than a perishing film star but she has to go and spend thirty quid on a new outfit for Pertwee 's wedding . |
| 10 | But its existence meant that Britain had joined the other major states of Europe in providing herself with a minister and an administrative machine designed to conduct and control foreign policy . |
| 11 | I long to paint and paint other things . |
| 12 | You 'll need to go and get some advice from the head wife at the end of the village . |
| 13 | I mean , in the long run their both , they both give the same outcome , alright , but farmers want to try and avoid that variability of income , alright , so they 'll much prefer to , instead of having , you know , they probably prefer erm , a certain income of forty pounds rather than erm , an equal chance of getting one hundred pounds or zero . |
| 14 | Over the coming year , we expect to consolidate and develop this work . |
| 15 | The Constitution is therefore not merely a body of rules equally applicable to all citizens , but also a body of rules specially designed to benefit and protect given groups … |
| 16 | It is an exhibition designed to attract and reflect all aspects of health and leisure activities . |
| 17 | As industrialisation advanced eastwards across Europe , so social and political pressures within the logic of capitalist organisation helped to simplify and solidify national identities as part of the new economic and political order . |
| 18 | It is Government 's aim to create a class of full time professional farmers with sufficient land to provide a reasonable standard of living and , as a corollary , gradually to squeeze the subsistence cultivator off the land into full time alternative employment … the Master Farmers Scheme was designed to create and develop such farmers . |
| 19 | This , he said , helped to evoke and release suppressed memories and emotions that were having a detrimental effect on the health of these people . |
| 20 | This improved customer focus has aided the development of existing commercial opportunities and helped to identify and pursue new ones . |
| 21 | The SERC also wants to identify and develop specific areas within physics , some involving collaboration with industry . |
| 22 | Little wonder more organisations who want to retain and develop key staff are moving to the Open Business School . |
| 23 | A course designed to extend and practise commercial English . |
| 24 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 25 | This summary of the Vale 's Environmental Charter follows this division , and clearly shows how the Vale 's policies are designed to protect and develop each aspect of the environment — both globally , and locally in this unique and beautiful area . |
| 26 | The project should get off the ground before the end of this year , when the final touches have been put to the package of financial backing that ACE needs to build and test two prototypes of a design it calls the ACE 3000 . |
| 27 | But U.S. attack submarines , designed to hunt and destroy other subs and surface ships , seldom move on the surface of the ocean . |
| 28 | Thus when faced with a specification such as the following for so-called ‘ executive information systems ’ , one wonders exactly how the system is expected to filter and compress critical data received from the external environment ! : |
| 29 | Also , due in part to increasing media attention , delinquent-prone youths who are more interested in fighting than football see the terrace ‘ ends ’ as places to maintain and improve tough reputations . |
| 30 | The term refers to the law applied to these areas , which was designed to maintain and encourage wild animals , principally deer , and the greenery on which they depended . |