Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have been struggling to explore and clarify those patterns in recent years . |
| 2 | pretending to try and spill each other 's cocoa . |
| 3 | We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road . |
| 4 | When a Dutch journo asks why condoms are included in the press kit , Jim 's immediate retort goes ‘ Because you 're all going to go and shag each other afterwards , ’ swiftly followed by ‘ Did you all get the heroin as well ? ’ |
| 5 | Did you ever decide whether you were going to go and do that course . |
| 6 | I 'm just going to go and find some money and ring . |
| 7 | For example , er , if for example , you were doing something , I do n't know , say you s , said erm , I 'm definitely going to go and learn another language , I 'm going to go and learn German , let's say . |
| 8 | And , in attempting to gag and shackle these activists , the apartheid state showed its fear of this new generation of young fighters . |
| 9 | From the point of view of the environmental impact of mining , if the state was prepared to allow the mining companies to export their profits tax-free , it certainly was not going to try and impose expensive pollution control , environmental and reclamation regulations on their operations . |
| 10 | ‘ No thanks , I was going to try and get some sleep , ’ she told him , an edge to her voice . |
| 11 | You you 're going to try and get some solo out , persuade members |
| 12 | Are we going to try and get some work sheets ? |
| 13 | Look at the question and then just close the book and say right I 'm going to try and solve this equation . |
| 14 | Instead of attempting to integrate and co-ordinate internal transport services as a whole , individual boards , such as the British Railways Board , the London Transport Board and the British Docks Board , were to have as much individual responsibility as possible , especially in commercial terms . |
| 15 | A radical approach to shared assessment , which emphasises the importance of getting to know and understand each other ; the identification of aims in terms of what people would like to see happening ; and a process of considering plans for action which recognises the existence of different perspectives , moves the focus away from the usual concern with the individual and how he/she should change , to focus instead on the role of other people and wider circumstances . |
| 16 | It is probably prudent to suggest here that as the war progressed , especially after mid-1944 until the end , aircrew generally throughout the Command — and more especially in the Pathfinders — improved enormously , First of all starting in 1944 the loss factor was diminishing and once ground forces were proceeding to recapture and liberate large portions of Europe , the sortie value was debased and it was quite common for no one to bother to consider the 60 sorties as cut-off for a Pathfinder tour . |
| 17 | We have not only taken on the status of the older generation , we are beginning to look and behave that way too . |
| 18 | Prussia became aware that it had lost parity with its allies from the Napoleonic years and determined to catch up by creating a series of technical schools — later to include Danzig 's Technical High School for boys and the famous Conradinum — and by beginning to investigate and research industrial techniques . |
| 19 | Pieper warned that some ‘ open ’ vendors were now beginning to backtrack and introduce non-standard elements into their product offerings , in an attempt to lock-in their customer bases . |
| 20 | Western firms which have chosen to supply Slovakia from subsidiaries in Prague are facing the additional burden of near chaos at the Czech-Slovak border , with guards and officials struggling to understand and implement new import regulations in the context of highly ‘ dynamic ’ bilateral relations . |
| 21 | Furthermore , she was n't too keen on having to shop and prepare three meals a day when she 'd been so organised before , and had done the minimum of cooking . |
| 22 | This , in turn , relieves the software houses of the problem of having to write and test numerous device drivers . |
| 23 | It is about people coming to identify and express personal feelings , wishes and circumstances and coming to understand what contributes to the positive and negative of their existence . |
| 24 | Have you ever started to speak and found yourself having to stop and take short breaths just to get through a sentence ? |
| 25 | Of all the places to choose , they picked the retirement capital of America , the Sunshine State of Florida , to hold the company 's annual meeting next week , which suggests that the blue rinse brigade , beside themselves with rage at the way the company has frittered away the value of their investment in it — and cut their dividends , will be able to turn out in force without having to travel and give poor Loius Gerstner the handbagging of his life . |
| 26 | Hemmed in by bicks and shoulders , besieged by people wanting to shake his hand , put questions , or merely to remind him of past meetings , Cameron was struggling to respond and make each person feel attended to . |
| 27 | Membership Assistant Dean ( chair ) Dean Modular Course Co-ordinator Assistant Academic Secretary ( secretary ) Ten elected members of teaching staff to include at least one member from each faculty Two student representatives nominated by the students ' union from the MCC representatives Any Field Chair ( not otherwise qualified ) choosing to attend and having two days ' notice of his or her intention to the Chair . |
| 28 | In practice , people do succeed in learning to talk and understand each other . |
| 29 | The comments that follow are intended to help in learning to identify and reject unusable answers . |
| 30 | In claiming to diagnose and treat this illness doctors can do more harm than good . |