Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been yet another cancelled lesson only today and Ronni was feeling even angrier and edgier than ever as , just after lunchtime , she made her way down the garden towards the villa 's private little jetty , a corner she had n't explored before , to try and calm herself with a breath of air . |
| 2 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 3 | . The other ideal , which I have n't got round to doing would be to try and appoint somebody on a short term basis . |
| 4 | Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal . |
| 5 | and take an extra dose at night to try and get you into a sleep so we can get you back into sleeping rather than up prowling about during the night , cos it does no good at all . |
| 6 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 7 | The head had asked the educational psychologist to come and assess him with a view to producing a formal Statement of Special Educational Needs . |
| 8 | He ‘ made ’ this year 's Grand National winner , according to trainer Nick Gaselee , teaching the equine giant , nicknamed the Monster Muncher , how to jump and handle himself in a race . |
| 9 | After I turned the engine off and opened the door , I found my legs had turned to blancmange and moulded themselves into a sitting position . |
| 10 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 11 | The merit of this , as we have seen , is that we are led to examine the ways in which this ‘ objective ’ economic class comes to persist and reproduce itself as a self-consciously ‘ lived ’ social entity . |
| 12 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 13 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 14 | I have to go and catch her on a really bad day . |
| 15 | For example , many badger communities use one group of holes for several years , leaving others in the territory to fall into decay , only to uproot and re-open them on a whim . |
| 16 | We shall attempt to apply and adapt them to a much shorter viewing distance , under controlled laboratory conditions . |
| 17 | For the England team , on whose success depends not only the financial viability of the counties themselves , but also the capacity of the game to attract young people to play and watch it as a part of their heritage , the preparation for Test cricket provided by the present hotch-potch is clearly unsatisfactory . |
| 18 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 19 | After coming back magnificently from two goals down with 20 minutes remaining , two goals gifted to Reading in the last five minutes consigned Darlington , who dominated the game , to defeat and left them without a win at home in two months . |
| 20 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 21 | She rescues him , drives him out of town as dawn starts to break and leaves him in a wheatfield . |
| 22 | Further courses are coaching orientated , examining what the individual needs to learn and offering it in a digestible format . |
| 23 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 24 | According to FMLN sources , the plan envisaged giving the guerrillas full administrative control over their zone in a " transitional period " , until peace talks produced a final accord which would allow them to disarm and convert themselves into a purely political movement . |
| 25 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 26 | ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’ |
| 27 | " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . " |
| 28 | The goats try to guess who the eagle wants to attack and hide her in a circle . |