Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helps me concentrate and drift into more intense areas of thought . |
| 2 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They took a soaking no doubt relieved in an attitude of ‘ rather you than me , mate ’ as they watched the canoeists jump and sit in one motion the way they had practised boarding . |
| 5 | Sarella felt her nerves jump and crackle at his approach . |
| 6 | ‘ The males I train every day so that they can jump and run without feeling too much tired . ’ |
| 7 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 8 | Er , first of all on the comment from Dave in relation to British Gas and the minimum achieved performance level or M A P L er the initials that I 've come to er know and love over the past few months , never having heard of them before . |
| 9 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 10 | None the less , Salmon did know and correspond with other Ranters and sectarians associated with them , and he was imprisoned with Coppe and Wyke . |
| 11 | Through this you , who have thought that the inner and outer struggle was your own , will understand , know and comprehend through the deepest fibres of your being that you are no longer alone and that everything you do matters to someone . |
| 12 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
| 13 | Q. Does the Committee know and agree to the cost of the work ? |
| 14 | Each company is given considerable autonomy so it can know and respond to local markets . |
| 15 | The ozone layer ( spread out between 12 and 50km above the Earth ) , has always existed and , left to its own devices , will regenerate and interact with other airborne gases to create a perfect balance . |
| 16 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 17 | Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … |
| 18 | But if an alliance can not be made with the parents against what feels uncontrollably bad inside them , they may defect and identify with the ‘ bad ’ . |
| 19 | A large quantity of Mozart 's music was published in that year , 1785 , perhaps reflecting the ever-growing demand from the newly affluent middle classes for music which they could buy and play at home . |
| 20 | Farmers could buy and sell through their local co-operative but were not obliged to do so . |
| 21 | The costs of market-making to the investor are reflected in the bid-offer spread ( turn ) , the difference between what the market maker will buy and sell at . |
| 22 | They would be unable to compete with larger companies which could buy and sell in bulk , and take advantage of advanced technology . |
| 23 | Go and see what you can buy and sell in the islands around here . ’ |
| 24 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 25 | ‘ If the arbitrated rate is good , we will buy and sell against cowrie shells from the Spice Islands . ’ |
| 26 | They were so small , he and Hazel , that they could share his single bed quite comfortably — could sprawl and stretch without constraint . |
| 27 | No NATO general could have organised the strategy so well , for what general can recognise and know by name over a thousand of his troops — even when masked ? |
| 28 | In all three areas the impact upon the third party of the actions of other actors is beyond the control of the former ; indeed from its perspective it may be of little import whether the behaviour of other States inter se is consensual or coercive , until the degree of coercion becomes such that as a member of the international community it must recognise and respond to an illegal act . |
| 29 | Australian batsman Geoff Marsh , an asthmatic , is contributing to a TV advertising campaign to help people recognise and deal with the health problem . |
| 30 | What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole . |