Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb infin] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | This booklet tells you what you need to know and do for a healthy pregnancy , and the delivery of a healthy baby . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Add leek shreds , parsley , spinach and remaining cider to pan , cover and cook for a further four minutes . |
| 8 | Many are a temporary condition but there are certain types which are difficult to treat and last for a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Then we should both stop and groom for the final showdown , giving Barry Hearn three months to promote and sell the fight , ’ said Eubank . |
| 12 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |
| 13 | Numbers on the train were greatly reduced at Georgemas where those going to Wick had to dismount and wait for a connecting Sprinter . |
| 14 | I can see something of the sort as I look over my own published attempts to describe and account for the peaceful way of life followed by the Semai , and I think I can also see some of the reasons for it . |
| 15 | He let the minion struggle and kick for a little while , then hoisted it back out , shook it , and turned it the right way up again . |
| 16 | Listen , I goes , I do n't care who it was but you better not come and knock for no more because my Mum 's screwing with you . |
| 17 | The next day , and the day after , his requests for an audience met with a blunt refusal and the clerk had to stay and hope for the best . |
| 18 | Those of you who know me from my earlier scribblings in PFK will be well aware of my feelings in relation to our responsibilities to do our best to maintain and care for the delicate marine creatures we take from the wild . |
| 19 | While the prospect of reconciliation between the king and the archbishop grew , it did so because on the one hand the papal ruling on royal taxation of the clergy had been relaxed , while on the other the king 's relations with his leading magnates were now rapidly deteriorating as he sought to raise and pay for an expeditionary force to Flanders . |
| 20 | Please would you investigate and arrange for the necessary maintenance work to be put in hand . |
| 21 | The problem is no less with open-ended exercises and unstructured enquiry projects in humanities work , where the teachers need to anticipate and prepare for a wide variety of student response and reaction . |
| 22 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 23 | This sort of awareness of the children 's requirements is a key role for the teacher in most activities as she tries to anticipate and provide for the next stage in each child 's development . |
| 24 | 7.5 In the event that fails to order and pay for the minimum number of copies of the Licensed Software specified in Schedule 9 shall be entitled at its option , to terminate the Agreement without liability . |
| 25 | Theologians were constantly in demand to speak and write for a wide public which was eager to understand the Council 's message and importance . |