Example sentences of "[prep] and [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is really for a business with more than three vehicles to look after and keep track of . |
| 2 | Students should , through assignments , be required to make use of and apply knowledge and competences across a wide spectrum of situations . |
| 3 | The detail of the Act and regulations made under it will be discussed later , in chapter 6 , in the light of what the main body of this report will show about how consumers think of and use credit . |
| 4 | This provokes awareness of and gives practice in those features of language which provide links within sentences or across sentence boundaries : the glue that makes them stick together . |
| 5 | motivation for the learner to make sense of and acquire control over language and the power it can have ; |
| 6 | It is therefore a good idea not only to take note of and practise stress patterns in words in isolation , but also study to see what happens with the stress when the same words are put in various sentences . |
| 7 | He moved towards and took hold of her gently by the shoulders , forcing her to turn and look at him . |
| 8 | At the time he prepared for and received Eucharist , he was the oldest of 32 residents of a home for severely handicapped children under Catholic auspices . |
| 9 | But after the race riots it was seen as something which the state would have both to cater for and take control of . |
| 10 | George Oaks had been cared for and had work provided , first by his parents and later , by his elder brother . |
| 11 | Alistair Sampson ( former President of the BADA and an correspondent on antiques ) will discuss English pottery ; Marina Vaizey ( editor of the NACF magazine ) will lecture on cataloguing and building a collection of paintings , works on paper and prints ; Derek Shrub ( lecturer in Fine and Decorative Arts ) will give advice on selecting and restoring English furniture ; and Ian Pickford ( broadcaster , lecturer and writer ) discusses caring for and collecting silver . |
| 12 | They are encouraged to do ‘ worry work ’ , to ask questions about what is going to happen , to weep if they feel like it , to ask for and get reassurance that the future will be all right ; different but all right . |
| 13 | Upon his death Charles 's eldest son assumed responsibility , and anxious evidently to enlarge the sphere of the firm 's activities he took an " option " or " take-note " from the Honourable John Pennington Bart. , Lord Muncaster , which issued liberty to " … search for and get lead and Copper Ores & any other ores within the Manor of Little Langdale & Tilberthwaite ( save and except in certain parcel of Ground under a lease to Wilson & which Ground & Premises are to be reserved for the sole use & purpose of the said Wilson … |
| 14 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 15 | All practices agreed that preparing for and implementing fundholding was an enormous administrative task . |
| 16 | Both teachers and the school librarian will be monitoring pupils ' responses to 1 ) information skills planning sheets 2 ) the keyword approach to identifying the purpose of , searching for and using information 3 ) using a microcomputer to search for information 4 ) worksheets on note taking , organizing and presenting information A report on the project will be drawn up in Term 3 . |
| 17 | Censorship is an unprofessional act , and anyone who deliberately calls for and takes part in censorship has no place in the profession . |
| 18 | It can be frustrating sometimes if you can see an end result you 're aiming for and have difficulty getting there . |
| 19 | Boy had dreams in which he spent all his money and most of his time shopping for and carrying home bulbs , seed packets , leafless vines and small , bare-branched trees . |
| 20 | He has searched for and found treasure . |
| 21 | He has searched for and found treasure on every continent ( except Antarctica ) , and he has dived for treasure in every ocean . |
| 22 | Many countries are experiencing difficulty in ensuring access to employment for all persons available for and desiring work , while social needs on a massive scale go unmet ( Nowotny and Neveu , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | The keys to good interviewing in all cases are thorough preparation , knowing exactly what you are looking for and having confidence in your own judgement . |
| 24 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ For 10 minutes they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation before explicitly asking him to work for and provide information to them . |
| 26 | The small shock of surprise disturbed her judgement for a moment , and the awareness of feeling and looking disconcerted inclined her to resent him , and to look for and find impudence in an approach which would have seemed perfectly excusable in a resident scholar . |
| 27 | The criterion-referencing of assessments is not an essential feature of graded tests , but it is an approach which has been strongly recommended because it is intended to make clearer the targets which pupils need to aim for and to provide information on achievements for parents , teachers and employers . |
| 28 | I 'd like to try and define what the difference between and eating disorder and simply wanting to be a different shape or a different size is ? |
| 29 | Immediately the sonorous booming of the sea flowed into and took possession of the room like a vibrating and irresistible force . |
| 30 | In that case shut the f*ck up and go report on something else ’ . |