Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his career , the Master of Stair showed himself to be willing and able to flow or turn with the prevailing political tide , changing sides as it suited his purpose or ambition . |
| 2 | If the rider 's weight is in front of the horse 's , he may cause the horse to fall or stop in the above instances . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 5 | An alternative to attacking the enzymes that catalyse important steps in the viral lifecycle is to try and interfere with the viral genetic material directly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well somebody sa and they stand facing the wall and they shut their eyes and there 're people at the end and they have to try and get to the other side without the other person seeing them . |
| 8 | The answer too is other than to try and work towards the two communities will agree on something and that 's how your how you 'll like it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , but could you perhaps spare a little time to come and talk to the Chief Superintendent ? ’ |
| 10 | No mention of the Holy Spirit , you notice : merely a foreshadowing of the role of the disciples in being witnesses to the Messiah who had to suffer and rise from the dead so that repentance and forgiveness could be preached to the nations , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:46f ) . |
| 11 | Their sports scholarships are excellent , because they allow the athletes tremendous opportunities to train and compete against the best . |
| 12 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 13 | In this case the librarian may choose to purchase or borrow through the interlending system , depending upon the work 's quality and the likelihood of its being requested and/or used again . |
| 14 | To a great extent their analysis of the problematic nature of the established set — up tends to parallel that advanced by the constitutional authorities in that they are attentive to the political and economic problems of adversary party politics , elective dictatorship , and the overload of conflicting demands . |
| 15 | The secondary plate , enabling the creatures to chew and breathe at the same time , is also a mammalian characteristic . |
| 16 | Its edges , at first three-dimensionally sharp and rigid , after a while began to wave and shimmer on the red heat of the sand . |
| 17 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
| 18 | But in reality such protests were conducted at a low level in order not to interfere with normal , and reasonably good , relations which British foreign secretaries wished to continue and nurture with the offending nations . |
| 19 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 20 | The green grasshoppers fittingly tended to go and settle on the green backgrounds , and the yellow grasshoppers on the yellow . |
| 21 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 22 | I 'd like to go and work in the Old Bailey with a barrister |
| 23 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
| 24 | I think I 'm supposed to go and report to the local polizei tomorrow . ’ |
| 25 | The tyre then begins to slide and scrubs off the excess speed which could n't safely be lost with a more drastic pull on the brake . |
| 26 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 27 | With the opening of the Great Hall on 15th April 1992 , you and your family will find there is so much more to see and discover at the National Railway Museum . |
| 28 | Many will be eaten by other fish in the sea , but eventually the survivors will fight their way back up their own river to spawn and die in the very place where they were hatched . |
| 29 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 30 | It was like a nightmare to sit and listen to the loose stones bouncing off my windscreen and bodywork as the lorry passed me at about 70mph . |