Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot .
2 Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal .
3 I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake .
4 She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’
5 Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 .
6 ‘ I 've never had any doubts about my scoring ability but I have still got to go out and do it on a consistent basis . ’
7 Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success .
8 ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’
9 I 'll come and see you in the mental hospital if you promise not to cause a scene .
10 How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ?
11 Most officers will be happy to help and provide you with the necessary information .
12 Dorothy would leave and abandon her at the very idea .
13 They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call
14 ‘ I feel I should write and thank you for the smooth transition and vast improvement to the standard of cleaning at our premises .
15 I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor .
16 is er , Robert you can come up and take us through the four steps of selling .
17 In five minutes we 'll come back and take you to the medical centre for more tests . ’
18 Some people like to use a card for each question at this stage so that it is simple to move questions about as it seems desirable to order and re-order them in the best sequence .
19 I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish .
20 We got him to come and fix it before the first session .
21 We will have destroyed some of our roots , burnt the family photographs for want of a tiny sum to buy the site compulsorily , block the drains which are drying it out , excavate it with a greater delicacy than the present JCBs can offer and restore it as a regenerating wetland of immense cultural significance .
22 I was n't sure , I said , but soon , very soon ; I 'd phone and tell him within the next couple of days .
23 He felt compelled to bend forwards and kiss her on the proffered cheek .
24 If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’
25 They will listen to your ideas , find out how much you can comfortably afford to spend and point you in the right direction of the right properties , in the right location , at the right prices .
26 I could tell him when his crown 's starting to fall off and remind him of the royal plural — and , well , lots of things !
27 No doubt they would return and place him with the other Commando dead in neat rows in front of the Chateau to await burial .
28 Whatever dreams or desires are turning you on you 'll want to pursue and promote them to the Nth degree this weekend .
29 A joint press release states — ‘ A major new joint initiative from the two world governing bodies has been formulated , promoted by the recognition that bowls needs a marketing arm to properly develop and promote it as a major sport worldwide .
30 His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis .
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