Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owns one steam locomotive especially designed and built for the project which has successfully managed services since it was delivered in October 1986 . |
| 2 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 3 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 4 | so I wanted to try and go for the C C Q , this is it , this is what we 're gon na ask you and of course it did n't work but I had to try it to see . |
| 5 | So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career . |
| 6 | Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege . |
| 7 | If the seller can not maintain an action under section 49 , he may still have a claim for damages which he can bring under section 50 ‘ where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 9 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |
| 10 | Her husband died in 1909 but Mary Sumner continued to write and speak for the Mothers ' Union , taking a keen interest in all that was being done . |
| 11 | The principal assets for which roll-over relief is available under ss152-160 TCGA 1992 are land and buildings occupied and used for the purposes of the vendor 's trade , fixed plant and machinery and goodwill . |
| 12 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 13 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 14 | The proposals must be acceptable to the people and parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole and because of the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland any political arrangement must recognise and provide for the special relationship between both parts of the island . |
| 15 | She rose and stooped for the shell . |
| 16 | Without a word , Roberts rose and headed for the service hatch . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , Hoving became rapidly intoxicated with his own power and was incapable of maintaining the balance between forcefulness and arrogance , between populism and vulgarity ; between protecting and caring for the art under the Met 's roof and blithely selling it heedless of scholars or donors . |
| 18 | fra , ma frame of mind , you got to demand and wait for the answer , even though it might take a minute for the to say erm , erm , oh we use erm , you know , we 've got a , a , a local van that comes and se , like , you know . |
| 19 | Every time that it comes to capping regulations , those same authorities are blamed and pilloried for the spending for which Ministers have happily claimed the credit . |
| 20 | When he realized that Adam was not one of his colleagues , he stopped and reached for the revolver in his belted holster . |
| 21 | Their feet became stuck and they could then easily be caught and killed for the pot . |
| 22 | The need to develop effective action to implement that trust is a dramatic illustration of how economic forces need to be contained and controlled for the good of the world community right across both frontiers and generations . |
| 23 | Whenever they let a letter pass , it is only to encourage and watch for the answer . |
| 24 | In general , we think of the criminal law as the means by which individuals are prosecuted , tried and punished for the offences ( e.g. theft , assault , etc. ) which they have committed . |
| 25 | There also sometimes seems to be a feeling that the media could have got themselves better organised and asked for the material earlier . |
| 26 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 27 | I believe I understand what makes the heart of Britain beat , what inspires all those millions of families across the land to go out each day to work and strive and create for the future . |
| 28 | I encourage our members to love , respect and pray for the other churches and to seek their well-being and growth above our own . |
| 29 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 30 | At Enfield , the destination of our first day 's march , we were met and accompanied for the last mile by a procession of Catholic parishioners . |