Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb infin] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most harmful effects are that groups develop competing or conflicting goals , and lose their ability to communicate and cooperate with one another , |
| 2 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These claim to be able to clean and disinfect in one process known as sanitisation ( BS 5283 : 1976 ) . |
| 5 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 6 | ‘ The holiday we were featuring was a Sovereign Cities ‘ Away-Day ’ to Amsterdam and , as we had a lot to see and do in one day , we had to set out early . |
| 7 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 8 | There are many variations on this theme ; there are , for instance , the men who feel imprisoned by a bond , but , who , when it is broken , panic and want to build it up again , so creating a cycle which can run and run until one partner changes in attitude . |
| 9 | The child may automatically gravitate towards one parent , may touch and climb on one and not the other . |
| 10 | Ripe females will stop and spawn with one or more males of their choice . |
| 11 | It seems that the calls [ of horses ] are highly individual and mothers and foals in particular can recognize and respond to one another 's voice . |
| 12 | And therefore I believe it 's worth making the effort to use non-sexist language , because no one notices , and using sexist language may just offend and put off one or two . |
| 13 | A direct role where collaboration occurs as a direct result of the teacher 's involvement : the teacher decides when collaboration should occur and why , and sets the processes in motion , for example , by asking children to read and comment on one another 's work , by setting a task structured in such a way that the children need to talk to one another and collaborate with one another in order to accomplish it . |
| 14 | And I did try and sit on one of them . |
| 15 | So , what we 've got is four of these books that will go and condense into one copy , |
| 16 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |
| 17 | Well the thi one thing you could do is go and talk to one or two admissions tutors of the social work courses . |
| 18 | Perhaps you could go and fight in one of those wars they 're always having somewhere and lose yourself in the din of battle . |
| 19 | Well if that 's case she can go and work for one of the taxi companies and sit in their office and ans |
| 20 | Studying in Edinburgh provides a student with an opportunity to live and work in one of the most attractive cities in the country . |
| 21 | A good mascara should lengthen , curl and separate with one application — the fatter the brush , the thicker and fuller your lashes will be as more colour adheres to it . |
| 22 | If however , the stress is maintained for a sufficient time , there is a general tendency for chains to unravel and slip past one another into new positions where the segments can relax and regain a stable coiled form . |
| 23 | The woman discovers their bodies after the husband has departed again , and calls in a " " porter " " to remove and dispose of one of the bodies for a rich sum . |
| 24 | Longman is to expand and invest in one of its key areas of strength and current activity , Asia Pacific . |
| 25 | A few bloodied survivors , swearing that they , and their children , and their children 's children , and so on until the end of the world , would live and die with one ambition burning in their hearts : the prevention of another such apocalypse . |
| 26 | The division of labor develops as there are more individuals sufficiently in contact to be able to act and react upon one another … |
| 27 | But in fact very few can resist the urge to stop and sit in one of the small road side restaurants and simply soak up the atmosphere . |
| 28 | Superficially it might have appeared as though two brawny giants , immobilised but for the sway of their torsos , were about to jab and slash at one another , piercing and flaying till the vampire bat device decided that sufficient flesh had been sliced , that sufficient blood had coagulated in slim cinnabar threads . |
| 29 | As Grainne stood , unable to move , bars of moonlight fell across the creature 's face , and the planes of its features , the angle of its bones , seemed to melt and dissolve into one another . |
| 30 | He is prone to speak and write at one moment as though motives were transparently obvious , and at the next as though they were inscrutable mysteries far beyond the range of his competence . |