Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 2 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 3 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 4 | At this point it may be helpful to try and distinguish between a witness and an evangelist . |
| 5 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 6 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 7 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 8 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 9 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 10 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |
| 11 | ‘ When I came here with my parents in 1974 and saw that most of the ‘ Australian ’ souvenirs were imported from Hong Kong and the Philippines , I decided to try and break into the market , ’ he recalled . |
| 12 | Often counselling can help them come to terms with a lot of this and help them set out a means to try and change in the future . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 14 | Killion was too exhausted by the feeble air , and the cold , and the need to watch the airfield , to try and think of a reason . |
| 15 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 16 | The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county . |
| 17 | Now I 'm going to try and deal with the qualification . |
| 18 | The Portuguese may have the worst road safety record in Europe , but that 's no reason to try and add to the casualty figures . ’ |
| 19 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 20 | All we can do is to try and insure against the possibility of ill-judged disposal by some sort of division of labour . |
| 21 | So that little old ladies who are , decide , or old gentlemen for that matter , want to try and live in the community , and then , they stick that on their bill . |
| 22 | We were already beginning to try and live by the diet . |
| 23 | Everyone 's so busy looking at it they 're not even bothering to try and get on the roundabout . |
| 24 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |
| 25 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 26 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 27 | The same principle applies to those whose natural instinct is to try and merge with the wallpaper . |
| 28 | I bent down to try and look in the back of the Golf . |
| 29 | The festivals included " mysteries " , dramatic performances of episodes relating to the life , death and resurrection of Osiris , and often involved the planting of seed in Osiris-shaped moulds to germinate and grow by the end of the festival . |
| 30 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |