Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government disclosed and repudiated a project of the previous military regime to build a nuclear bomb and signed with Argentina a treaty of nuclear non-proliferation [ see p. 37914 ] . |
| 2 | Chen said in a message to employees that the Eau Claire , Wisconsin company had designed and tested a prototype of what would be the world 's fastest supercomputer , and industry executives familiar with the project separately told Reuter that the prototype appeared to be a viable machine with a solid architecture . |
| 3 | It was six years ago she was approached and offered a job as casting director for a planned new soap opera … |
| 4 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 5 | The 43-year-old Irishman is having to battle through the qualifying rounds in Blackpool to try and clinch a place in next April 's finals of the £1 million Embassy world championship in Sheffield . |
| 6 | The Israeli political system remained in a state of deadlock throughout April following the collapse of the Likud-Labour coalition in mid-March [ see pp. 37303-04 ] , when the Labour leader Shimon Peres had been invited to try and achieve a majority in the 120-member , evenly balanced Knesset ( parliament ) . |
| 7 | Hot tears made her eyes smart , infuriating her still further , and she took a moment or two to try and control a surge of pure emotional misery . |
| 8 | The Doctor , Ian , Susan and Carol travel down to the Sense-Sphere capital , with John , whom the Sensorites have offered to cure , to meet the rulers and to try and negotiate a settlement of their differences . |
| 9 | Remember to try and feel a sense of beauty and slimness flow over you as you perform them . |
| 10 | Remember to try and feel a sense of grace and well being flow over you as you perform them . |
| 11 | Remember to try and feel a sense of poise , elegance and harmony flow over you as you perform them . |
| 12 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 13 | Maybe you want to be cautious , knowing that to try and do a work of God by the flesh is to court disaster and possibly a nervous breakdown for good measure . |
| 14 | He had been moved alongside the combative Hughes in the second half , to try and expose a lack of pace at the heart of Southampton 's aggressive and rough defence . |
| 15 | I 'm not saying we have done this in an ad hoc way up to now but what we want is to try and develop a programme for this and I think that should be a very useful and , and frankly I would expect it to grow er over the years as the need develops . |
| 16 | He had set out to try and find a passage to the Orient round the north of Asia in the hope that this would rid the merchant ships of the scourge of pirates who were terrorising the southern trade routes . |
| 17 | At the biochemistry department at Oxford University scientists are joining the international race to try and find a vaccine for AIDS . |
| 18 | The object of these exercises was sometimes to try and get a change of policy , sometimes to indicate alarm should certain lines of policy be carried further and sometimes so that the critics can signal their feelings to sections of the party outside Parliament ( Left-wing MPs , for instance , use this method to get support in the annual elections to the National Executive Committee of the party from activists in the constituencies ) . |
| 19 | I had to try and get a bit of kip on the crumbling sofa with a torch in one hand and a big bit of four by two in the other , ready to whack any of the mice if they came out to get us . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to try and get a job with a view to eventual partnership . ’ |
| 21 | It 's the expensive side of medicine , you see , that the public will pick up the bill for , so you 've got to try and have a balance between these things . |
| 22 | To try and steal a march on SunSoft and USL — still vapourware — SCO last week announced release 2 of its Open Desktop Unix operating system environment , which will ship on July 1 . |
| 23 | I was going to try and take a photograph of er lot of 'em so I 'm gon na try and |
| 24 | Techniques new to RBGE , such as numerical taxonomy , cladistics , and cluster analysis , make novel demands on staff trained in classical taxonomy , but if this kind of work is seen as desirable within the Science Plan , we must initiate and plan a programme of staff development and training in taxonomic computing in 1992 . |
| 25 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 26 | Accordingly I telephoned him quite early the next morning and received a cordial invitation to come and drink a cup of coffee with him in his home in Lord North Street . |
| 27 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 28 | maybe , maybe , people could just be thinking or , you know if they hear of somebody who might be able to come and give a talk like your friend who , who was very good , erm , you know , we could make a note of it and , or ask people , you know , could talk to talk or something that sort . |
| 29 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 30 | I wonder if your father would like to come and have a chat with me , possibly about your future ? |