Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience : the extent to which a practitioner is able to integrate her/his skills and knowledge in the assessment process , to communicate and liaise effectively with a wide range of individuals , to analyse and evaluate and reach a professional judgement about questions of need and risk , will be partly contingent on the professional confidence and sensitivity derived from experience . |
| 2 | Careers in computing are for people with common sense , the ability to think clearly and logically , the capacity to adapt readily to change , and the skill to communicate and work closely with others . |
| 3 | Like quicksilver she was impossible to catch and ran now from his mother 's restraining hand , shouting hotly because of the Oye-Eboe 's sly teasing . |
| 4 | Luckily Tim Dunton had been very understanding , telling her not to worry and to take as long as she needed to sort matters out . |
| 5 | For archaeologists like David Miles the challenge is to try and piece together the sort of person he was . |
| 6 | The work 's scheduled to last 18 days , but the contractors are working round the clock to try and finish sooner . |
| 7 | Eleanor was wrong to try and pretend otherwise . |
| 8 | Even then I knew roughly what I was going to try and do though I had no idea how to go about it . |
| 9 | It was tempting to try and do too much on one short visit to the Falklands . |
| 10 | Here it is much more feasible for feminists to try and intervene more formally by criticizing existing sources , and by creating their own alternatives . |
| 11 | It is rarely useful to try and adjust fully to the time-zone transition before the journey , since this will interrupt your life-style too much . |
| 12 | Yes I was going to say about to try and start later in the morning if that would suit people . |
| 13 | I mean I 've got my own thoughts , I have to be careful here that you know I 've got to try and pull together what you think because at the end of the day it 's it 's very important that it reflects the way we work in school , not the way I perceive I we work in in school because you 're the people at the chalk first . |
| 14 | ‘ Charlotte and I used to try and hide together , so as to avoid all that ghastly heartiness our families went in for . |
| 15 | He 's going to tr she , he or she is going to try and go now . |
| 16 | Now a sprinter beforehand will actually be on the blocks and will take in a lot of oxygen to try and saturate as much oxygen into their blood as possible , so that when that gun goes off they will aim to have all of their red cells where possible carrying oxygen . |
| 17 | I would like , if I may , to try and say here what I think this ‘ dignity ’ to be . |
| 18 | You just need to try and reason logically and stay calm ! |
| 19 | Direct mail selling frequently uses database information to try and sell only to those people whom the seller thinks are the most likely to give him a sale . |
| 20 | However , there was an entrance fee and I was beyond the stage of paying those so I decided to try and shelter somewhere else . |
| 21 | The very first step is to try and ascertain exactly why the media have approached you . |
| 22 | This is why I decided to draw Love and Protection to try and raise much needed funds for ETA to continue this valuable work . |
| 23 | This is why I decided to draw Love and Protection to try and raise much needed funds for ETA to continue this valuable work . |
| 24 | Their fossils were therefore studied with great care to try and determine exactly how they moved and how they breathed . |
| 25 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 26 | I had started to feel very tired and I decided to try and find somewhere to have a sleep . |
| 27 | ‘ I felt I 'd hit that wall with my playing , ’ he explains , ‘ and searched all over Britain to try and find somewhere that could help , but there were no schools or colleges operating such courses . |
| 28 | They actually did send teams of people erm , nuclear scientists to Chernobyl to try and get just how much damage was being caused and going on being caused , but there was , I think you probably do n't remember because it went right by |
| 29 | This causes the contestant to try and get even closer to the opponent 's face with subsequent jabs , in order to pick up that elusive score . |
| 30 | The sounds produced by this rack are certainly impressive , although I must say that to try and get away from the overall processed sound was almost impossible . |