Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you imagine , we have to try and make out a picture of that ! |
| 2 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 3 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 4 | to try and set up a scout group |
| 5 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 6 | Robert decided to try and find out a little more about him . |
| 7 | It might be , I think in actual fact during your er , I think it might be a waste of time , but I think it 's probably advisable to try and find out a bit more about this |
| 8 | I want to try and get out a bit earlier today . |
| 9 | I 'd hate to try and work out a leaflet in a committee this size . |
| 10 | It was up to her to try and work out a plan of escape , but without expert help that was n't going to be easy . |
| 11 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 12 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 13 | Wang Xizhe , a factory worker from Guangzhou , was an activist in the pro-democracy movement in China who helped to write and put up a 100-metre newspaper wall in his city in 1974 which attracted worldwide interest . |
| 14 | The basic differences between them in respect of their value to architectural study is that Ostia was occupied and developed over a much longer period , from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. , and that it was not a provincial city but the port of Rome and , as such , became more important , as is evidenced by its buildings . |
| 15 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 16 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 17 | He moved and let out a groan as he discovered how stiff his limbs were . |
| 18 | Suddenly she stopped and let out a cry . |
| 19 | She stopped and sucked in a breath . |
| 20 | AUSTRALIAN doctors have successfully frozen and thawed out a human embryo before planting it in a womb . |
| 21 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |
| 22 | Mr Farrell , of Ross-on-Wye , Hereford and Worcester , showed them where he saw the car parked and pointed out a skid mark on the hard shoulder . |
| 23 | inherit , preserve and pass on a tradition … they engender modes of life , habits of thought and standards of judgement which render them centres of resistance to crude forces which threaten steady and peaceful evolution … |
| 24 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 25 | This kind of sexism can be ( and has been ) noted , but it is hard to get rid of because it occurs in ‘ unregulated ’ contexts : nobody has made or written down a rule saying that women can be addressed as ‘ dearie ’ or referred to as ‘ bitches ’ . |
| 26 | Laura stooped and picked up a gym shoe half buried in the mud . |
| 27 | He stooped and held up a fairly modern brief-case of the sort office workers are said to carry their sandwiches in . |
| 28 | And Piers saw himself being seen and put on a clever sort of don't-mind-us smile . |
| 29 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 30 | Ian Whelpton technical manager to Clynol , who manufacture perms , believes it should only be permed when twisted and wound around a rod . |