Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If possible , introduce the female a few hours before the male , so she can explore and settle in in peace and quiet . |
| 2 | In fact , the hours are so long at clubs I suspect an ordinary shop-keeping junior would soon quit and go back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 3 | One of these was to ‘ plant ’ a seismic amplifier , a gadget that would monitor and transmit back to Earth precise details of lunar tremors . |
| 4 | ‘ What the world wants is a fast and comfortable commuter airliner that can land and take off from helicopter pads and heliports , which are now fairly common in the big cities , ’ he said . |
| 5 | when you feel something wet and wake up in bed |
| 6 | I had held on to Lili , and Syl had brought me home insisting that our mothers should stay and go on to dinner with Lili and Robert and the gallery owner as planned . |
| 7 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 8 | But it gets easier , and if we do n't begin and step out in faith then our gift will never mature . |
| 9 | I ca n't imagine I would try and scramble up over rocks using my nose , but the use of hands in the mountaineering hierarchy seems to be of prime importance . |
| 10 | Well I 'll , I 'll try and get down on Monday and see what she says and I say you know she must do three hours on Mondays . |
| 11 | and er so Mrs said oh we must , we must try and get out of Khartoum cos it was so hot and we 'd booked to go to k er for a week |
| 12 | Dated-product manufacturers will try and sell out by year-end , so repeat orders before Christmas can be a problem . |
| 13 | We 'd try and come up with ideas of what it was all about — sometimes prompted by Bernie , sometimes not . |
| 14 | The more of our young lads who to on tour and experience the higher standards of rugby in other countries the quicker they will develop and come through as cap challengers . |
| 15 | A PRISONER who did a clothes switch and walked out with visitors to Acklington prison , Northumberland , was on the run yesterday . |
| 16 | Do you wan na go and live down in Katie 's bedroom ? |
| 17 | " You , cat , must go and play about in the-garden of the tower , but do n't let the princess 's women catch you . " |
| 18 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 19 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 20 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 21 | By the time the Hopewell returned , the crop was ready to bale and stow and send back to England . |