Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not allow it to open up and expose her directly to the moon , and to the distant but approaching dragon . |
| 2 | Any second now it would break and throw him back into the river . |
| 3 | I think she was going to try and throw it out of the window but she did n't have the strength . |
| 4 | If you want to produce as many young as possible , it is best to hatch and rear them away from the parents . |
| 5 | You 're concentration goes it 's like er it 's like someone 's going to try and head it in to the net and he 's trying to work out which corner it 's going into and he 's |
| 6 | erm I think and what I 'll try and do , I 'll try and bring erm , I 've got two on the Thursday and I 'll try and bring them forward to the Monday , cos Monday 's a baker 's day is n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Because , ’ the Doctor answered , a little hoarse himself , ‘ the enhancer works both ways , and the Old One 's survival instinct is letting him draw on its excess life-force to try and bring it back into the world . |
| 8 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 9 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 10 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 11 | But he was either moody and difficult , or else in tearing spirits , playing with the children and upsetting them so that their mother would come and whip them afterwards for the noise they made . |
| 12 | Let's go downstairs and show it off to the others . ’ |
| 13 | What 's the point of teaching something if you can go and look it up in a book ? |
| 14 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 15 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 16 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 17 | Now do n't go and spill it all over the photos ! |
| 18 | In a dream , she saw him reach out and take her possessively by the elbow . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |
| 20 | Establishing these aspects initially is difficult enough , but the real headache is to maintain and apply them continuously throughout the various iterations of a changing design . |
| 21 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 22 | What I did n't want to do at times was to overload , I wanted to start off with a time limit as we mean to go on and spread it out through the year and so I have put the important things which are to do with the quality system like internal quality audit erm , non- conformances , the corrective action , training and all stuff like that with an audit before and then things like contract print erm , I do n't think we are going to have any problems with I put those for after . |
| 23 | Sitting where he was , a bullet fired into the back of his neck might pass through and embed itself somewhere in the brickwork above the stove . |
| 24 | One day during rehearsal of Sea Change , she remembers , when things were getting too complicated , she simply told him to stop and leave it altogether until the next day . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd better go and tell someone up at the camp that she 's come round . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I can come and feed her again in the morning . |
| 27 | Reflecting a befuddlement judges often express when dealing with science ( and revealing again that science is not yet part of the mainstream of education ) one of the justices said : ‘ There are Harvard law professors on both sides of this case ; I had hoped you could get together and lead us out of the wilderness . ’ |
| 28 | A lot of people may like you , but it can be more useful to know a smaller , selective number — like the managing director 's secretary , for instance , who 's been with the company twenty-five years , and who loves to chat and fill you in on the history . |
| 29 | learn my trade that I ought to stay here and put something back into the industry again . |
| 30 | She turned it up as hot as it would go and put them in on a tray . |