Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 2 | At this point it may be helpful to try and distinguish between a witness and an evangelist . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 4 | Killion was too exhausted by the feeble air , and the cold , and the need to watch the airfield , to try and think of a reason . |
| 5 | He says we are still talking — we have a meeting in February to try and agree on a final solution . |
| 6 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 7 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 8 | Tina occasionally said that sort of thing to try and sound like a normal mother . |
| 9 | The organisation is regarded as a ‘ green field ’ , able and willing both to accept and adapt to a completely changed information systems environment . |
| 10 | That belief system will be accompanied by values of behaviour and culture , which we are likely to accept and practise to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 11 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 12 | to come and talk like a child to yourself — no one is listening . |
| 13 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |
| 14 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 15 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 16 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 17 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 18 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 19 | Lord Jesus , we cry to You that You will bring peace to those who use force to try to gain their selfish way ; use Your people to be peacemakers ; help us to work and pray for a world where You will be King . |
| 20 | One view of play ( this spontaneous activity found in the immature animal and in most humans of any age ) is that it prepares the organism to meet and to cope with a wide range of situations . |
| 21 | Since the beginning of the year , I have continued both to meet and to correspond with a wide cross-section of the Northern Ireland business community . |
| 22 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 23 | The earlier a pupil is able to find and keep to a comfortable and efficient working position , the better . |
| 24 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 25 | She has always been interested , and taken part , in physical exercise , and was introduced to Medau through Joan Daniels ' first class in 1966 ; June enjoyed it so much she went on to train and qualified as a Medau teacher in 1974 . |
| 26 | Pauline Kenward , the Society 's Chairman , who comes from Reigate first became interested in Medau in 1968 when she joined Margaret Charlwood 's class ; from there she went on to train and qualified as a teacher in 1974 . |
| 27 | This booklet tells you what you need to know and do for a healthy pregnancy , and the delivery of a healthy baby . |
| 28 | He even managed to stand and walk in a new way . |
| 29 | The backhand slash completing the figure-of-eight sped unerringly for the doomed man 's neck , and an instant later his severed head somersaulted high in the air , to bounce and roll to a stop on the mat several feet away . |
| 30 | On a task requiring the subject to detect and respond to a small gap in one of the sides of a square Kinsbourne ( 1973 ) found concurrent verbalisation to lead to a right hemifield superiority and humming to lead-to a bias in detecting gaps in the left visual hemifield . |