Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flu can spread very rapidly , so it is easy to catch and to pass on to others . |
| 2 | Flu can spread very rapidly , so it is easy to catch and to pass on to others . |
| 3 | We 're at different stages in our lives , but I would love to try and get back on track to where we were playing really good matches . ’ |
| 4 | Well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations , but what Virgin are doing is using Richard Branson 's personal money to try and expand out of trouble . |
| 5 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 6 | Any reader is entitled to ask what purpose such national anthologies serve ; their best justification is making art more accessible , enabling those living artists represented to find and hold on to audiences for their work . |
| 7 | The almost incredible hotchpotch of superstitions , beliefs and ‘ gods ’ which are promoted by the hierarchies of all the great organised religions in their ceaseless struggle to obtain and hold on to adherents , leaves the earnest seeker after a true spiritual haven bewildered and unsatisfied . |
| 8 | Sometimes agreement is apparent rather than real because of the tendency to conform and fall in with majority opinion . |
| 9 | You know , it 's a nice quiet time of the year , we 're up to peak and busy up till Christmas , but in January we are a bit quiet , and this year it has n't been a bit quiet . |
| 10 | He lived his separate life and she waited for him to falter and slip back into alcohol . |
| 11 | He had some lovely tartan coloured rugs which I used to go and admire over at Clove Lodge , where he would take lodgings for the night . |
| 12 | The rest of the session , including Summerchild 's confession , or his heroic refusal to confess , has broadcast itself about the little attic room , bounced off the walls , been absorbed in the carpet , faded to silence and passed out of history . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether he 'll win the award again , we shall have to wait and find out until May . |
| 14 | In order to fit and to go back to work on Monday morning . |
| 15 | Each month students will explore a different aspect of garden design , beginning by establishing the different functions which a garden is to fulfil and moving on to study access routes and boundaries , changes in level , colour theory , designing for seasonal variation , and the use of water and architectural features . |
| 16 | This research aims to extend and bring up to date a study conducted by Tony Becher and Maurice Kogan during the late 1970's ( and reported in Process and Structure in Higher Education , Heinemann , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | When Dot began to stumble and fall over with tiredness , Gloria gathered her up and carried her too . |
| 18 | He just wants to rest and catch up with friends . |
| 19 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 20 | At the foot of the steps Lan stopped for a moment to turn and stare back at Joseph . |
| 21 | Available in one size only , it measures 30in from nape of neck to hem and fits up to 42in bust . |
| 22 | But here we 've got the equipment and you can get the knowledge to learn and go on to university and learn it yourself really . ’ |
| 23 | He returned to Britain to marry and came back to Madeira in 1811 , having opened his commercial house in 1808 and begun to deal in wine . |
| 24 | Maths tuition can be tailored to the needs of people budgeting for the family groceries , learning to measure and switching over to metrication or simply those wanting to be able to help their children with maths homework . |
| 25 | Mungo found time to change and clean up before tea . |
| 26 | There was now loud music in the lounge , with two couples trying to dance and falling over with giggles from the perpetual motion of the dance-floor . |
| 27 | Creating these insurance to die is the number one need for financial independence , because we as doctors are going to spread the news with our modern lifestyles , because unlike the pneumonia patient you 're not going to recover and go back to work , unlike the , the heart transplant , as the heart transplant , or the heart attack or the cancer patient , maybe at our expense . |
| 28 | In 1806 a captain was attachéd to the French embassy in Vienna specifically to collect and send back to Paris information about the Austrian army , while other officers were sent to Berlin for similar work in anticipation of the war which broke out in that year . |
| 29 | Phoenix Park , at the top end of the biggest park in any European city , is altogether more atmospheric , with Tudor-style buildings , bookmakers who are just as happy to take and pay out in sterling as in punts , and bands and clowns to provide extra entertainment . |
| 30 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |