Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] that " in BNC.
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1 | So behind every change , every innovation , every development project , there must be somebody with a vision who has been able to communicate and sell that vision to somebody else ( even when the change begins with an assignment , not a self-directed initiative ) . |
2 | In the stables , the horses on whom thousands of pounds would be won and lost that afternoon stirred as their lads unlocked their boxes , brought them their feed . |
3 | There 's a lot we can do , I think , to help the community in a wider sense , and I see that as one of the key elements of my work , to try and make that work . |
4 | I would like to try and sort that out on the day apart from the |
5 | But if she thinks it 's worth the risk , then it 's up to you to try and contain that risk — make sure there 's nothing to trip over , and that someone who can react quickly is on hand to give tactful support where necessary . |
6 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
7 | erm because , to get in to the flat they 'd either to go up stairs from the deck , or downstairs from the deck , and to try and manage that with small children , probably a buggy and shopping as well . |
8 | We will know by the first of April this year rather more than we know at the moment but you 're right it can go up and down , but there are lots of budgets in Social Services which are subject to this and it 's part of our job to try and manage that during the course of the year . |
9 | Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end |
10 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
11 | Right , see if you can beat that you see , but er , an hour to try and beat that |
12 | Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be . |
13 | I mean , in the long run their both , they both give the same outcome , alright , but farmers want to try and avoid that variability of income , alright , so they 'll much prefer to , instead of having , you know , they probably prefer erm , a certain income of forty pounds rather than erm , an equal chance of getting one hundred pounds or zero . |
14 | All business is taken , so that particular , those particular items that you 've referred to I am already seeking to schedule that business for tomorrow , but I do n't want to preempt the situation and chance my arm any further than what it is , because I could end up falling on my face and I want to try and avoid that . |
15 | Doctors , G Ps , nurses , pharmacists , dentists , they 're all under attack and you 're just part of the effort to try and repel that attack , all the way round . |
16 | to try and repeat that |
17 | If they are made to feel lesser , to any type of women they react with a certain machismo to try and subvert that . |
18 | It 's also standards , like the poor receptionist , she says , you know like yesterday , she 's trying to put a call through , , and it did n't get through , she says I 've got to try and answer that phone within four rings . |
19 | They 've got to try and stop that somehow or other . |
20 | We have an uncompromising attitude sadly lacking in a lot of what 's coming out at the moment , which is partly to do with not being 18 or 19-year-olds who were really into something that happened fairly recently , whose major motivation is to try and copy that somehow . |
21 | But I did not stop him coming back , and do not , I beg of you , ask me to try and explain that . |
22 | erm and we 've taken we 've made moves to try and improve that , improving staffing , improving pay rates , blah blah blah . |
23 | It was like a valedictory speech , possibly the last big statement he would utter as Leader of the Opposition , the opportunity to deliver a personal justification of what he did to try and ensure that Labour 's values joined together with the popular vote to save the party from the political wilderness . |
24 | Erm principally this area is wide open farmland so long views of a new settlement will be provided and it 'll be very difficult to try and disguise that in any way . |
25 | is it , how many miles is it that I fly to Turin and Zurich and do you want me to try and add that up and then it was into the cars I thought oh this is an easier question to answer , I 'll stick with the cars cos I know that I do twenty two thousand . |
26 | Thank heavens he had n't got to try and sell that one . |
27 | Erm having considered this , I think that what we 've tried to do in the economic activity projections is to try and estimate job need and to try and balance that with an appropriate level of provision to meet that need . |
28 | So , the object of that part of the project is to try and address that issue , to try and make sure that N V Ss build up their links with environmental groups . |
29 | I think the most important thing is to try and find that gap in the market that is not well trodden by a lot of other people — to find something which you can do which is different from all the rest of them . |
30 | If you 'd like to try and find that . |