Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They often feel they know it all and tend to give the impression that they are ‘ experts ’ on blacks . |
| 2 | What is important about this case is that in factual circumstances similar to those before this House the plaintiffs contended for the principle relied upon by Mr. Gardiner and failed to persuade the judge that such a principle existed . |
| 3 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 4 | She stared blankly at the boys for a couple of seconds , then shook her head and tried to ignore the fears that crowded her . |
| 5 | Lissa gazed up at him , at his vexed expression , and tried to quell the smile that pulled at her lips . |
| 6 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 7 | FDR also suffered from paralysis and tried to deceive the public that he could still walk . |
| 8 | The two hundred sheep jostled and complained and tried to jump the queue that stretched deep into an olive grove . |
| 9 | And so Ian went north to Barnsley but , after completing another century of appearances for The Tykes , his link with Palace was re-established in June 1984 when he joined Steve Coppell as Assistant Manager here at Selhurst Park , and helped to fashion the team that restored 1st Division football at The Palace in 1989 , although by the time of Palace 's promotion , Ian had taken over as Manager of Swansea City . |
| 10 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 11 | As people identify their own problems collaboratively and begin to analyze the conditions that contribute to the problems , they can develop strategies that are appropriate for their own culture , time , and place . |
| 12 | Jones mailed all the details to Pons as the detector was now working and beginning to gather the data that would be the basis of the Brigham Young University-Rafelski paper . |
| 13 | Glancing down at the package as though it might just possibly bite , she took a deep breath and began to unpick the sellotape that held it intact . |
| 14 | The health group took part in a nationwide survey into housing and health and started to investigate the research that had already been carried out into heart disease . |
| 15 | Or perhaps they are working in Britain and having to interpret the culture that is all around them . |
| 16 | Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran , legends of the ring years before they reached this collision , will reach out and try to mist the reality that they are both beyond their peaks of power and reflex action . |
| 17 | Be friendly and try to give the impression that you are a person of integrity who knows his or her own mind , and are not likely to abandon a deal half-way through . |
| 18 | Each line speaks volumes about the lives of the real people ( in the first two instances ) and the characters ( in the third example ) involved , and if ever you feel in need of a cure for insomnia just memorize one of these quotations , take it to bed with you , and try to imagine the events that could have preceded and followed the moment described in each of the brief extracts . |
| 19 | Look for all these types of web and try to catch the spiders that build them so that you can watch the stages of web-building . |
| 20 | Bravd winked at the Weasel and went to investigate the shape that they assumed was a pack animal . |
| 21 | Summarizing reduces ambiguity by pointing things out explicitly and helps to reduce the likelihood that people are agreeing to different things ( see Agreeing on page 3 ) . |
| 22 | They are unable to do any of that because they can not leave their children and start to climb the ladder that the Prime Minister has exemplified . |
| 23 | When the hon. Gentleman stoops to taking a few words which are in headlong collision with the view of an entire article , and tries to convey the impression that the article said what he says it said , it is very sad . |
| 24 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 25 | Gesner was pleased with his own clothes , and had to confront the realization that Therese 's would be no less effective . |
| 26 | Twelve patients completed the food excluson arm of the study and continued to avoid the foods that had caused symptoms . |
| 27 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |
| 28 | UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that the state has decided to put them to death , many prisoners remain positively patriotic , and refuse to dismiss the notion that America 's injustices can not be reformed . |
| 30 | Social investigators assumed that in the private sphere of the family altruism prevailed , and tended to ignore the possibility that resources within the family might not be shared equally . |