Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to continue to invest in the field organisation and in research and development , ’ White said . |
| 2 | They had to wait to go through the time lock machine . |
| 3 | Hey mummy you know when you used to go to toilet in the middle of a conversation . |
| 4 | Nobody had criticized the Government for ‘ planning ’ the Normandy invasions , as Simon tersely argued , so it was perfectly reasonable for the Government to continue to plan after the war . |
| 5 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 6 | This will enable us to continue to concentrate on the collision of gravitational waves . |
| 7 | I was always worried when he went to work , but y you do n't think your husband 's going to go to work in the morning at five o'clock and never come home again . |
| 8 | Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements . |
| 9 | He seemed to want to try to remain in the underworld while still reaching out for life 's little comforts and luxuries . |
| 10 | But environmental standards , as I see it , and whatever form now , whether in the posh green sense or the nitty gritty sense , which is equally as important and sometimes forgotten , environmental standards transcend , obviously transcend politics and so what I want to , would would would want to do , is to try to strip off the politics and indeed to strip off the emotion , because that 's the other thing which I think affects any real consideration of environmental issues . |
| 11 | There would have to be some sort of Council meeting , anyway , held somewhere out of Edward 's reach , to try to cope with the situation . |
| 12 | Members of the public are expressly asked not to gather on Albert Road or Russell Street , or to climb on buildings to try to see inside the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 13 | Consider someone deciding not to try to go to the theatre . |
| 14 | In 1974 an attempt to begin to restore self-government through a new Northern Ireland Executive , elected by proportional representation to try to provide for the involvement of the Catholic minority in government , was brought to an end after a strike by Protestant workers . |
| 15 | We need always therefore to try to work with the grain of the markets to achieve the required effects . |
| 16 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 17 | to come to walk in the light of Salvation . |
| 18 | • If we work at night , and have to try to sleep during the daytime , we have difficulty in adjusting our habits in spite of having an ‘ active ’ environment at night and a quiet , sleep-conducive environment ( a quiet , darkened bedroom ) during the daytime . |
| 19 | Each group is to try to negotiate for the release of a child . |
| 20 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've had to try to deal with the fact that lots and lots of men do terrible things . |
| 22 | Arrest warrants were issued for two former Central Bank officials implicated in the scandal after they failed to appear to testify before the Senate . |
| 23 | In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " . |
| 24 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 25 | Would any Conservative Member here tonight accept my challenge to try to live on the state pension and income support ? |
| 26 | But Christians believe that God acts in history , so the Church always has to try to respond to the leading of the Holy Spirit in each age . |
| 27 | A good example of dogged determination to try to force into the marketplace an extremely ingenious invention which had been rejected by the consumer , was our pursuit of merulite packings for soft drinks . |
| 28 | Fluka is continuing to work to stay at the forefront of knowledge in these areas . |
| 29 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 30 | DINGHY SAILING all you need to know to take to the water |