Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 2 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 3 | And I 'm going to talk about , and make do and mend in the second world war . |
| 4 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 5 | It can not move and shoot in the same turn , except that it can be turned to face its intended target . |
| 6 | A volley gun can not move and shoot in the same turn except to turn to face its target . |
| 7 | A cannon can not move and shoot in the same turn except to turn to face its target . |
| 8 | And that 's what we 've got ta try and do in the next , next few weeks really . |
| 9 | Erm as well as all that erm I 'll just try and add in the extra bits that Erm what was oh sorry how did I come to Friends Provident then ? |
| 10 | Oh shall we go and sit in the other room while daddy finishes the washing up ? |
| 11 | Well , come on we 'll go and sit in the other room . |
| 12 | You always have your meal in the kitchen and I 'm not opening the dining-room at such short notice , but you can go and sit in the front room if you want to . ’ |
| 13 | " I see , " said Clara , descending : and she thought of the square flat patch that extended beyond her mother 's house at home , and of the grudgingly mown grass , and the dutifully weeded herbaceous borders , and the complaints about neighbouring cats and dogs that would come and dig in the unrewarding earth . |
| 14 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |