Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [vb infin] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 2 | So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers . |
| 3 | In order to try and comply with the Sports Council 's insistence that we need to shorten our teacher training , the new students will follow a more intensive programme , scheduled on more frequent training days , to be known as Course II . |
| 4 | Clubs like ours have to try and survive on the crumbs washed from bread tossed in by the business world , to feed the mallards of the Football League . ’ |
| 5 | If the seller can not maintain an action under section 49 , he may still have a claim for damages which he can bring under section 50 ‘ where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 7 | Er Prof and , used to come and talk to the Guilds and things , er the men 's meeting . |
| 8 | Her husband died in 1909 but Mary Sumner continued to write and speak for the Mothers ' Union , taking a keen interest in all that was being done . |
| 9 | This will give Fr John time to meet and talk with the children , their parents and teacher . |
| 10 | Winter is a necessary counterpart to summer , to concentrate and rest after the months of feverish activity . |
| 11 | ‘ Apparently he was having a race round the deck with one of his friends and managed to slip and fall down the stairs . ’ |
| 12 | It is possible to observe and enjoy from the sidelines , and , of course , there is life beyond the office — hard for the young to believe but as rich and full as any corporate involvement . |
| 13 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 14 | However , events have only moved to the present position as a result of the intransigence of the school 's management , and the reluctance to listen and respond to the concerns of a large number of parents . |
| 15 | It is precisely this multi-layered richness that I wish to celebrate and protect from the ravages of the systemizers . |
| 16 | We were told to halt and stand against the walls . |
| 17 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 18 | I mean do we want to go and stay with the children at camp or shall we stay home ? |
| 19 | He wondered whether he should ask Crumwallis to go and sit with the boarders in the dormitory , while he had a word with this young Freely . |
| 20 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 21 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 22 | ‘ But we 've got to go and help with the horses . |
| 23 | Besides , you need to motivate workers in safe seats to go and help in the others . |
| 24 | I 'll be back in a second — I have to go and see to the hors-d'oeuvres — management 's orders . ’ |
| 25 | He 's got to go and deal with the children , take them to and from work , then run a business . |
| 26 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 27 | ( f ) To invest and deal with the moneys of the Company not immediately required in such manner as may from time to time be determined and to hold or otherwise deal with any investments made . |
| 28 | ( f ) To invest and deal with the moneys of the Company not immediately required in such manner as may from time to time be determined and to hold or otherwise deal with any investments made . |
| 29 | We are more seriously cheating children if we fail to teach them how to use language than if we fail to teach them to enjoy and participate in the arts . |
| 30 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |