Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 2 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 3 | To recall and build on the earlier analysis , these rules have to do with truth-telling , sincerity , intelligibility , empathy and active listening . |
| 4 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 5 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 7 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 8 | Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 9 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 10 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 11 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 12 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 13 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 14 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 15 | Given the difficulties of monetary base control , would you expect M0 and broader measures of the money supply , such as M4 , to rise and fall by the same percentage as each other ? |
| 16 | The best perm for your hair type would be a conditioning perm which contains protein ingredients to strengthen and condition during the perming process . |
| 17 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
| 18 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 19 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |
| 20 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 21 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
| 22 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 23 | Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year . |
| 24 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 25 | By self-determination we mean the right for us to associate and integrate with the unitary state , or , as a nation , to secede . ’ |
| 26 | I was allowed to get up and dress on the tenth day after Heather 's birth , and go to the day room of the hospital ready to go to my billet at the fortnight . |
| 27 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
| 30 | Central to our vision of the New Europe , therefore , is an industrial strategy which can enable us to compete and succeed in the modern world . |