Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helps me concentrate and drift into more intense areas of thought . |
| 2 | Foreign language teachers might say that their students already know how to communicate and interact in their own language ; what they need in the foreign language are formal skills and knowledge — pronunciation , vocabulary , grammar — which will provide the basis for communicating and interacting . |
| 3 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 4 | In such a time anyone who lacks the courage to be curious and questioning , the capacity to grow into new competencies , and the confidence to communicate and collaborate with others , is severely handicapped , and his or her educators are guilty of gross dereliction of duty . |
| 5 | Retix Inc , Santa Monica , California says it has developed an Open Systems Interconnection-compliant distributed transaction processing communications manager , which enables different transaction processing monitors to communicate and interoperate with each other . |
| 6 | The most harmful effects are that groups develop competing or conflicting goals , and lose their ability to communicate and cooperate with one another , |
| 7 | Here is more than the chance to do a bit of direct selling or attract further commissions ; there should be the desire to communicate and work with others . |
| 8 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 9 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 10 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 11 | As the parent of a daughter who has had to struggle and cope with dyslexia , I have perhaps more personal knowledge of the difficulties that it causes than many hon. Members . |
| 12 | I think my commitment undoubtedly has a lot to do with the fact that we had to struggle and fight for everything we have . |
| 13 | A member of a board , although not affected by one of the statutory disqualifications above mentioned , may be so closely associated with the subject-matter of the proceedings as to make it improper that he should act and vote as a member of the board in connection with them . |
| 14 | When the venture was launched in 1970 , Elaine Moss had a ‘ mere ’ 2,000 titles to sift and select from . |
| 15 | It has always been Whitbread 's aim to try and promote from within . |
| 16 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 17 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 18 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 19 | to try and finish for half past twelve if we can . |
| 20 | At this point it may be helpful to try and distinguish between a witness and an evangelist . |
| 21 | Are you going to try and check about er whether you are |
| 22 | And yet , to try and care for them , to protect them , is to touch a sensitive wound . |
| 23 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 24 | Yes er although let me say this , that er there were many things which the management were required to do , for example , when we , when we went to our monthly meetings with them , we established monthly meetings with the management , one , in order to try and control from our side , er the , to have some control on the production er side of things . |
| 25 | The wall stands outside the building of the United Nations — an organisation founded after the end of the last world war to try and bring about peace between all the different countries of the world . |
| 26 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 27 | To cope with this , the manager has to try and stave off time pressures without losing the momentum of gaining popularity . |
| 28 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 29 | I 'm going to try and manage without that er support on my arm today . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's foolish to try and manage on your own . ’ |