Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 2 | So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career . |
| 3 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 4 | The proposals must be acceptable to the people and parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole and because of the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland any political arrangement must recognise and provide for the special relationship between both parts of the island . |
| 5 | I encourage our members to love , respect and pray for the other churches and to seek their well-being and growth above our own . |
| 6 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 7 | At Enfield , the destination of our first day 's march , we were met and accompanied for the last mile by a procession of Catholic parishioners . |
| 8 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 9 | New job descriptions hasve been written , personnel selected and trained for the new roles . |
| 10 | The diagrams which follow show the instruments which are selected and used for the desired performance . |
| 11 | The oxygen evolved from the two samples can be collected and tested for the heavier isotope using a mass spectrometer . |
| 12 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 13 | It is far better to like and admire something that is wrong , or to like and admire for the wrong reason , provided we do so sincerely , than to follow slavishly the dictates or ideas of some other person . |
| 14 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 15 | Look and listen for the central ideas . |
| 16 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 17 | Baring his teeth in a soundless snarl of frustration and fury , he turned and ran for the opposite end of the alley , away from the oncoming car . |
| 18 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 19 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 20 | About 60 per cent ignored accusations of womanising and voted for the 46-year-old governor of Arkansas , giving him a landslide win over President Bush . |
| 21 | Amongst the many works which were cleaned and restored for the large exhibition on Jusepe de Ribera now being held in the Castel Sant'Elmo and in the Certosa of San Martino in Naples ( until 17 May ) , are the twelve paintings of Prophets painted between 1638 and 1643 , in the spandrels above the chapel arches in the church of the Carthusian monastery . |
| 22 | She 's had a hectic Christmas — one long round of shopping , cleaning and cooking for the entire family , including Malc 's brother and his wife and his mother , who has become confused and forgetful since Dad 's death and Lynda has taken care of her with selfless dedication . |
| 23 | In the gigantic concrete suburbs around Bucharest and the other major cities , no churches were built to replace the ones in the areas demolished and to provide for the spiritual needs of the relocated populations . |
| 24 | 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation … |
| 25 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |
| 26 | The entire burden of hatching , feeding and caring for the young cuckoo falls on the hapless foster parents . |
| 27 | ‘ Then we should both stop and groom for the final showdown , giving Barry Hearn three months to promote and sell the fight , ’ said Eubank . |
| 28 | The Government is called upon to ensure that the Railway Inspectorate is adequately staffed and resourced for the increased responsibilities in the wake of the report . |
| 29 | Hitch watched the tail lights of the Lancia disappear and headed for the public telephones nearby . |
| 30 | You can almost hear the excitement pouring out of the Master as one of his pupils gets the hang of something he 's been teaching and modelling for the past year . |