Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] for [art] [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 | After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins . |
| 6 | After washing , 100 µl of substrate ( tetramethylbenzidine in DMSO ( 10 mg/ml ) dilutes 1 in 100 in 0.15 M citrate buffer and containing H 2 O 2 to a final concentration of 1.3 M/l ) were added and incubated for a further 15 minutes . |
| 7 | Briefly , approximately 10 ng of purified protein A-fusion protein was preincubated in 20 µl of binding buffer ( 10 mM Hepes ( pH 7.9 ) , 60 mM KCl , 1 mM DTT , 1 mM EDTA , 0.25 mg/ml bovine serum albumin and 12% glycerol ) with appropriate competitor DNA for 5 min at room temperature , then 10 fmol ( approx. 20,000 cpm ) of 32 P-labelled , annealed octamer oligonucleotides were added and incubated for a further 20 min at room temperature . |
| 8 | I believe that had there been television in those days , the British cricket public would have been shocked by what they say and called for an early end to it all , irrespective of the rights and wrongs of Bodyline . |
| 9 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 10 | This booklet tells you what you need to know and do for a healthy pregnancy , and the delivery of a healthy baby . |
| 11 | I encourage our members to love , respect and pray for the other churches and to seek their well-being and growth above our own . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We could take this illustration too far — but I would like you to look upon yourselves as conductors , setting the tempo of the class , listening and looking for every discordant note — and for every good one — helping by encouragement — and asking questions , for instance " Are you working as hard as you could ? " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |
| 16 | He turned , their eyes met and held for a long , tense moment , then suddenly Penry flung away , so precipitate in his hurry to leave that he forgot to duck . |
| 17 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 18 | New job descriptions hasve been written , personnel selected and trained for the new roles . |
| 19 | The diagrams which follow show the instruments which are selected and used for the desired performance . |
| 20 | The oxygen evolved from the two samples can be collected and tested for the heavier isotope using a mass spectrometer . |
| 21 | Productivity : Benchmark what we do do and aim for a minimum standard of improvement better than inflation ; develop the skills base to tackle productivity problems across the Group ; set aggressive goals , guided by ‘ leading edge , not lunatic fringe ’ ; push harder to transfer best practices , with more involvement from the centre . |
| 22 | Cover and cook for a further 4 minutes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although no breakthrough was achieved in the discussions , the Japanese delegation offered its approval of North Korea 's signature of the safeguards accord and called for an early inspection of the country 's nuclear facilities . |
| 25 | Add leek shreds , parsley , spinach and remaining cider to pan , cover and cook for a further four minutes . |
| 26 | Many are a temporary condition but there are certain types which are difficult to treat and last for a long time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Look and listen for the central ideas . |