Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any second now it would break and throw him back into the river . |
| 2 | I think she was going to try and throw it out of the window but she did n't have the strength . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 6 | Let's go downstairs and show it off to the others . ’ |
| 7 | What 's the point of teaching something if you can go and look it up in a book ? |
| 8 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 9 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She turned it up as hot as it would go and put them in on a tray . |
| 15 | If you were to read the box of the Polyfilter , you would probably smile and put it back on the shelf — do n't . |
| 16 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 17 | I used to try and get him out into the country in the car . |
| 18 | I had to go and get it up across the road . |
| 19 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 20 | Paul 's in a meeting , but she 's going to try and pick him up on the way , or leave a note for him to follow on . |
| 21 | Dustin asked if he could sleep at Beck 's apartment , and if he would come and pick him up at the hall . |
| 22 | I thought , yeah , fair enough she goes , we can go and pick him up from the child-minder and then er you can come for some tea and you 'll be home by about half seven ! |
| 23 | Not like , I mean I was making my way there , he was making his way there and I would n't want them to come and pick me up in the car |
| 24 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 25 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 26 | I 'll confirm my offer in writing and when you receive the letter you can go and talk it over with an estate agent and your solicitor . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll try and wangle you out of the cabbages tomorrow — so you can go bilberrying all day . |
| 28 | She 'll hang around the Earls Court guest house till then , waiting for me to turn up and whisk her out for a spaghetti . |
| 29 | The exercises will help protect and strengthen her back in the future . |