Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night forensic experts were testing the guns to try and link them with crimes in Britain , Europe and America . |
| 2 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 3 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 4 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 5 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 6 | They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor . |
| 7 | Which would then expel the market traders and I think the i well the ploy was to try and get them into some of the er the vacant lots in within the Ellesmere centre . |
| 8 | So will more than likely be off next week , but I do want to try and get something done with this and some of the other accounts , I want to try and get them out the way before I |
| 9 | Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge . |
| 10 | It 's not advisable to try and cut them out yourself as they tend to be close to the skin . |
| 11 | So what you 've got there is a mass of you 've got six twelve words on the first circle and then you 've got twenty four words on the outer circle are you gon na dump all that information on to the audience to try and persuade them of your objective ? |
| 12 | I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’ |
| 13 | I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’ |
| 14 | and all sorts of things to try and discourage them from this . |
| 15 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 16 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 17 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 18 | No sound , nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass . |
| 19 | The penalty is that you have to decide what sizes you want and prepare them in advance , a process that can take quite a time and uses up a considerable amount of disk space . |
| 20 | Now , the cheats amongst us ( like me ) will discover that you can import graphics into the Cel editor , and will quickly come to the conclusion that very lifelike images can be formed by using a scanner to scan individual frames from a film , and then pick out the bits they want and place them on cels to form a small animated sequence . |
| 21 | The Howie Report receives details scrutiny from , who explores the different messages it contains and relates them to Scotland 's past and future . |
| 22 | I find an old plastic carrier bag , tip out the few bits of string and wire it contains and replace them with a handful of rusty bolts from the biscuit tin . |
| 23 | When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale . |
| 24 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 25 | develops and trains them for promotion |
| 26 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 27 | The red glow from the furnaces fell across the treadmills , turning the steel mesh to angry crimson , bathing the creatures inside them to eerie , unnatural life , blending and merging them with the machinery , until it was very nearly impossible to tell where the treadmills ended and the human creatures began … |
| 28 | The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place . |
| 29 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
| 30 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |