Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] and [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forever Onward through contraceptive devices and old sticks , carrying the good words to new and freshly rotting society , signalling the path of Entertaining Effervescence and weaving artistic patterns of dirty foam while endeavouring to avoid and repel all hellish floating things that do seek to sink its buoyant ideals . |
| 2 | People have been struggling to explore and clarify those patterns in recent years . |
| 3 | pretending to try and spill each other 's cocoa . |
| 4 | We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road . |
| 5 | When a Dutch journo asks why condoms are included in the press kit , Jim 's immediate retort goes ‘ Because you 're all going to go and shag each other afterwards , ’ swiftly followed by ‘ Did you all get the heroin as well ? ’ |
| 6 | Did you ever decide whether you were going to go and do that course . |
| 7 | I 'm just going to go and find some money and ring . |
| 8 | For example , er , if for example , you were doing something , I do n't know , say you s , said erm , I 'm definitely going to go and learn another language , I 'm going to go and learn German , let's say . |
| 9 | And , in attempting to gag and shackle these activists , the apartheid state showed its fear of this new generation of young fighters . |
| 10 | Are we also going to try and match those up with the attainment targets , so that we can say they 've completed a work sheet successfully ? |
| 11 | Yes you were going to try and wash some of those that were stained in something strong . |
| 12 | Erm , yes I 'm going to try and buy some plain ones , you know her , you know her navy blue ones |
| 13 | It 's going to be a nine or ten piece group and somehow we 're going to try and simulate some of this . |
| 14 | I 'm going to try and lose half a stone in the Christmas holiday . |
| 15 | Are we going to try and get some work sheets ? |
| 16 | You you 're going to try and get some solo out , persuade members |
| 17 | ‘ No thanks , I was going to try and get some sleep , ’ she told him , an edge to her voice . |
| 18 | Oxford has a erm reputation of being internationally minded , and I would like to spend much more on twinning if we were allowed to , to have proper link with Lyon where we 're actually funding projects in Lyon and links with other cities in the Third World , and I believe that if we are going to try and cut that out we 're being very , very narrow minded indeed . |
| 19 | ‘ Hope you 're not going to try and sell these , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Look at the question and then just close the book and say right I 'm going to try and solve this equation . |
| 21 | cos when I went , when Ben went to nursery school erm he wanted a box out of the break out of the office , I said no you 're not , I said Father Christmas is going to come and collect that , I said he 's gon na wrap them and I said he 's gon na come and deliver it |
| 22 | I 'm going to cheat and look this up in the instructions . |
| 23 | In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru . |
| 24 | He waited to see if I was going to frown and drag some faint recollection out of my own memory , but I said nothing . |
| 25 | A radical approach to shared assessment , which emphasises the importance of getting to know and understand each other ; the identification of aims in terms of what people would like to see happening ; and a process of considering plans for action which recognises the existence of different perspectives , moves the focus away from the usual concern with the individual and how he/she should change , to focus instead on the role of other people and wider circumstances . |
| 26 | We have not only taken on the status of the older generation , we are beginning to look and behave that way too . |
| 27 | ‘ In fact , if we 're busy at work I can see that having to try and explain all the complexities of the London Metal Exchange to someone who knows absolutely nothing about it is going to be a real drag . ’ |
| 28 | Hemmed in by bicks and shoulders , besieged by people wanting to shake his hand , put questions , or merely to remind him of past meetings , Cameron was struggling to respond and make each person feel attended to . |
| 29 | In practice , people do succeed in learning to talk and understand each other . |
| 30 | In claiming to diagnose and treat this illness doctors can do more harm than good . |