Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise you 'd be out more or less into the night because you got to go and see the men at night you see ? |
| 2 | The violent citizens sought to kill or abduct the Pope when Barbarossa refused to pay them an immense bribe . |
| 3 | They sent him delivery order but he failed to come and collect the rice . |
| 4 | In each case , according to the audit office , BAS devoted insufficient resources to project management and failed to train and support the project managers adequately . |
| 5 | Unlike the herald who sought to observe and note the outstanding ( the chroniclers , notably Froissart , made good use of the reports of battle given to them by heralds ) , the constable and marshal were more concerned with maintaining order . |
| 6 | He did extend his stay , helped to arrange and classify the Sherard collection of plants , many obtained from Greece and Asia Minor , and found more in the Botanic Garden to take back to Holland . |
| 7 | Over a million Americans were mobilized and they helped to refresh and revive the Allied forces on the Western Front . |
| 8 | The authorities claim they entered to try and overthrow the government . |
| 9 | Eventually , they were forced to accept some significant wage reductions , although the French invasion of the Ruhr , and the consequent interruption of coal output , plus the American coal strike of 1924 helped to reduce and delay the downward trend of coal prices and the rate of decrease in the wages of coal miners . |
| 10 | In 1972 the then Conservative government proposed to reform and unite the entire tax and social security system into a scheme of combined benefits and tax reliefs to be known as ‘ tax credits ’ . |
| 11 | Whereas Indian , Malay , Arab and Chinese merchants had by and large traded peacefully for the exotic treasures of the islands since before the time of Christ , the marauding European buccaneers sought to own and control the real estate itself , and began four centuries of infighting . |
| 12 | That pain seemed to swell and swamp the others . |
| 13 | In the afternoons the owner of the factory usually came to visit and to check the progress of the work . |
| 14 | Then he seemed to squint and see the others standing there . |
| 15 | The huge trees offered shade from the sun , but their deep sprays of leaves seemed to trap and intensify the heat of the day . |
| 16 | My father learnt to understand and trust the dog 's perceptions . |
| 17 | Although children often seemed to understand and produce the unmarked adjective forms more readily than the marked ones , they did not appear to treat small , for instance , at any stage as if its meaning was identical to that of big ( see Bartlett , 1978 ; Clark , 1972 ; Eilers , Oller and Ellington , 1974 ) . |
| 18 | Under the influence of a variety of thinkers including Thomas Carlyle , Saint Simon and Tocqueville , the younger Mill came to share and articulate the doubts felt about democracy by so many nineteenth-century liberals . |
| 19 | Informed commentators , then , came to describe and explain the working of the British constitution in the following way . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , his literary reputation continued to grow as later generations came to appreciate and reassess the immense significance of his contribution to English literature . |
| 21 | The others tended sometimes to laugh at Nina 's dedication to Athene , the way she seemed to live and breathe the magazine , think of nothing else . |
| 22 | This project will , through a study based largely on the Yarborough papers at the Lincolnshire Archives Office , analyse the strategies adopted to develop and maintain the estate . |
| 23 | Thus , as the capitalist mode of production ousted the feudal mode , its owners gradually came to shape and control the organs of the state ( the superstructure ) in order that the policies which were formulated within it served their interests . |
| 24 | Certainly in 1922 Ukrainians came to envy and hate the preferential treatment given to their eastern neighbours on the Volga , thus falling prey to the methods of divide and rule which the Bolsheviks inherited from their imperial predecessors . |
| 25 | For an inexplicable reason the low , billowy Donyo hills seemed to rise and to touch the sky . |
| 26 | The 1986 Education Act ( No 2 ) sought to enhance and standardise the role of governors in this area , but nevertheless the LEA remained the ultimate authority . |
| 27 | He remembers hearing it said that each man in one gang at least vowed to kill or disable the keepers if they attempted to thwart their attacks on the game . |
| 28 | So this was how it was going to be from now on , Maria accepted as she turned to go and find the keys . |
| 29 | On Jan. 5 he pledged to continue and consolidate the free-market reforms started by the Mazowiecki government . |
| 30 | The 1973 Act was confined to exemption clauses which claimed to exclude or restrict the statutory implied terms relating to title , description , quality and sample ( implied by sections 12–15 of the Sale of Goods Act ) . |