Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 2 | The South African environment department has refused permission to fishermen in Struisbaai to catch and barbecue a whale belonging to a species recognised as endangered . |
| 3 | Many a woman who considers herself kind , compassionate and unselfish has been horrified to catch a glimpse of something underlying that , something which is determined to catch and hold a person , which can be jealous and possessive and cares nothing at all for the claims of others . |
| 4 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 5 | Then , heading out next morning to try and make a 90-mile ( 130km ) passage before some nasty weather arrived ( we just made it ) , the place was all a-bustle . |
| 6 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 7 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 8 | The 43-year-old Irishman is having to battle through the qualifying rounds in Blackpool to try and clinch a place in next April 's finals of the £1 million Embassy world championship in Sheffield . |
| 9 | The Israeli political system remained in a state of deadlock throughout April following the collapse of the Likud-Labour coalition in mid-March [ see pp. 37303-04 ] , when the Labour leader Shimon Peres had been invited to try and achieve a majority in the 120-member , evenly balanced Knesset ( parliament ) . |
| 10 | But the double oxymoron in line 13 suggests that they are already foes , that the poem has either been written to try and restore a lost harmony , or to draw attention to the fact that it can not be restored . |
| 11 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 12 | Hot tears made her eyes smart , infuriating her still further , and she took a moment or two to try and control a surge of pure emotional misery . |
| 13 | my Lord may , may well be right , would , would the best thing be for simply er for Mr clerk to get in contact with your clerk and to try and arrange er with all the other clerks to try and arrange a system , mutually convenient time in the nearest possible future |
| 14 | The Doctor , Ian , Susan and Carol travel down to the Sense-Sphere capital , with John , whom the Sensorites have offered to cure , to meet the rulers and to try and negotiate a settlement of their differences . |
| 15 | Remember to try and feel a sense of beauty and slimness flow over you as you perform them . |
| 16 | Remember to try and feel a sense of grace and well being flow over you as you perform them . |
| 17 | Remember to try and feel a sense of poise , elegance and harmony flow over you as you perform them . |
| 18 | Well I think probably it was such a bad place , putting , come to try and show a little light , proper way to live and |
| 19 | If you take a facial expression anyone of the seven dwarfs and you want to try and give a dramatic idea how to present that face or that attitude to do it just by standing there without curtains opening on you and all that sort of thing it 's quite diffi , it 's quite difficult ! |
| 20 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 21 | It is much simpler , cheaper and healthier to try and eat a high-fibre diet in the first place . |
| 22 | It is important to try and eat a properly balanced diet ; get enough rest and sleep and if possible , cut down on stress . |
| 23 | Maybe you want to be cautious , knowing that to try and do a work of God by the flesh is to court disaster and possibly a nervous breakdown for good measure . |
| 24 | ‘ It seemed to be a lovely idea once the first one was put out to try and do a series . |
| 25 | He had been moved alongside the combative Hughes in the second half , to try and expose a lack of pace at the heart of Southampton 's aggressive and rough defence . |
| 26 | Now the doctor has to try and locate a suitable place to inject the blood . |
| 27 | Since then yet another Potato Marketing Board buying programme has begun , at £10 a tonne , simply to try and clear a major surplus of potatoes off the market . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh my God ! ’ she screeched , and spun the wheel , running the car up onto the pavement , twisting the wheel to try and avoid a shopkeeper , and plunging head-on into the wide , plate-glass window of an antique shop . |
| 29 | On chemical weapons , all the principal elements were agreed , the basic position being that sufficient of each country 's stock would be destroyed to leave 5,000 tonnes , production of new weapons would cease and they would join forces to try and secure a global ban on such weapons . |
| 30 | Once again the trade unions working individually and through the trade unions for Labour pulled out all the stops to try and secure a Labour victory . |