Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard that after the men were arrested the RSPCA returned to the land to try and retrieve a third terrier which was down the sett . |
| 2 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 3 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 4 | It should give the country the capability to design and build the next generation of Australian communications satellites as well as to win lucrative overseas contracts . |
| 5 | All who had gone to help the stricken townsfolk mixed with those who had lived through the disaster , and were present to mourn and pay a last tribute to their relatives , friends and neighbours , whose coffins , borne by men of the Fire Service , they now followed . |
| 6 | These were : dégorgement ( the act of removing sediment from the bottle after the second fermentation ) and liqueur de tirage ( the addition of sugar and yeast at the time of bottling to promote and guarantee a second fermentation ) . |
| 7 | With a lieutenant ( who has gained this position by being the first archer to hit the red ) to assist him and the clerk to the captains to advise , he has to arrange and run the next shoot . |
| 8 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 9 | Some commentators see The Stock Exchange 's rejection of the option to relaunch and reposition the second market as a mistake , as it deprives new growth companies of a low cost source of equity capital . |
| 10 | The arrival of the " talkies " in 1927 aroused new interested when millions flocked to watch and hear the first talkie star , Al Jolson , in The Jazz Singer . |
| 11 | The composer did have the opportunity to revise and shorten the Second Symphony , but it remains as long as the First , and needs a strong forward motivation which it certainly receives here . |
| 12 | This is where we need to re-program and send the next set of stitch patterns to the memory . |
| 13 | As a Conservative I naturally want the Government to survive and to win the next election , but plainly if the Deputy Prime Minister resigns that is something which gives cause for readjustment and rethinking if the Government is to win the next election . |
| 14 | Sharp Corp has already signed to make and market the first Apple Personal Digital Assistant , Newton , and Sony Corp makes Apple 's smallest PowerBook . |
| 15 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |