Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 2 | okay , do n't take too much , and that is to first make a literal translation and then , to try and put it into idiomatic English . |
| 3 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 4 | If you need parent support in the bad times then you need to encourage and reward it in those times when everything is going well . |
| 5 | To do this , we used experimental criteria to characterise and distinguish it from arachidonic acid , prostaglandin , chollagen , thrombin , or adenosine diphosphate ( see Methods ) . |
| 6 | His mother told him she made things to sell and left it at that . |
| 7 | The ability to store more food than we could eat at once also meant being able to buy and sell it in real quantity and the merchant cities arose . |
| 8 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm trying to decide if reducing it to four is a silver lining , ’ said Amiss . |
| 10 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 11 | The privately rented sector is declining fast , marginalized after seventy-five years of rent controls and other restrictions , although the present government seeks to change and revive it through partial deregulation . |