Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member of a board , although not affected by one of the statutory disqualifications above mentioned , may be so closely associated with the subject-matter of the proceedings as to make it improper that he should act and vote as a member of the board in connection with them . |
| 2 | Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … |
| 3 | Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed . |
| 4 | Invite your partner to respond — and listen — so you can negotiate and agree on a solution . |
| 5 | Others may find their essential needs met by acted-out fantasy , as with the man who insists that his adult partner should dress and behave like a child . |
| 6 | Any small hope held out to her by circumstances , or by her lover , is as a wisp which she can spin and twist into a thread , and if she gathers enough of these her feelings tell her that she will be able to bind them into a strong rope . |
| 7 | We had been advised that if we laid on a couple of bottles of champagne he might stay and chat for a while after the show . |
| 8 | To walk and think and live like a puppet . |
| 9 | When a woman 's voice is used freely and has power , it can sound and feel like a flow of light . |
| 10 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 11 | The mental effect of suddenly sitting up straight , squaring your shoulders , breathing deeply , can make you look and feel like a person who can change the world . |
| 12 | They made me look and sound like a freak : ‘ Gon na build a mown-tine . ’ |
| 13 | It would erode the precious British freedom , gained at considerable cost over several centuries , to shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faiths of our forefathers . |
| 14 | In his defence of Rushdie 's right to publish , Mr Torode argues we should be allowed to ‘ shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faith of our forefathers ’ . |
| 15 | An important fault in Freud 's work at this point is the failure to allow for a difference in the content of the ideas which leaders may espouse and develop in a group . |
| 16 | Sent into to keep the peace between warring communities the first soldiers had no more legal powers than the ordinary citizen until the Special Powers Act gave them power to stop and question , search and arrest without a warrant . |
| 17 | That is to say , the variation is not necessarily patterned in one single linguistic dimension ( for example , it does not necessarily move in a single phonetic direction : it may diverge in two or more directions ) , nor does it necessarily display a unilinear or unidirectional pattern in terms of any independent ‘ social ’ variable : on the contrary , the patterns shown in relation to different social variables may conflict and interact in a variety of ways . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's hard for people to really understand and identify with a problem , whether it 's Aids , Somalia or pollution , until they really get to see it first hand , ’ reflects Hines . |
| 19 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 20 | Sally stood up , letting the towel drop and shrugging on a silk wrap . |
| 21 | Stalking through the dark rooms she would suddenly stop and point to a fireplace — ‘ William de Morgan , those tiles . |
| 22 | This age-based inequality in our society is most marked in the years of youth and early adulthood : thus , in British law , 16 is the age of consent , 18 is the age at which one can vote and drink in a pub , and so on . |
| 23 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 24 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 25 | the rise of the Country Dancing Clubs was maybe be to kind of try and compensate in a way for the dances themselves going down , ordinary dances , folk were wanting to do the Scottish dancing and things ? |
| 26 | I am against circuses with animal acts , and I do not try and stand outside a circus and stop people going in . |
| 27 | I tend to live on my pension and , even when I see something I need , I will try and think of a reason to manage without . |
| 28 | You have to be very patient , you wan na try and look at a situation where they might wan na do it for five , ten , 15 , 20 years . |
| 29 | These body-builder types , particularly , can preen and pout in a manner which some ladies might find rather suggestive , only to have their hopes dashed when the guy starts telling anecdotes about his boyfriend 's expertise in the sack . |
| 30 | I need to grow and change and develop as a person in my own terms . |