Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 2 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 3 | Often counselling can help them come to terms with a lot of this and help them set out a means to try and change in the future . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | So that little old ladies who are , decide , or old gentlemen for that matter , want to try and live in the community , and then , they stick that on their bill . |
| 6 | I bent down to try and look in the back of the Golf . |
| 7 | Would she be free to come and go in the Casa Guidi as she liked ? |
| 8 | If you 'd all like to come and stand in the middle , yes |
| 9 | And tell Peigi she 's to come and help in the hall . |
| 10 | It aims to help all married people who want to bring new life and new dimension to their marriage , to come and share in the life of the centre . |
| 11 | He also asked Wednesday , who was now Thursday , to come and assist in the workshop . |
| 12 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Editor , — The BMJ is to be congratulated on highlighting the difficulty doctors have when they seek to train and work in the hospital service on a less than full time basis — a reasonable aspiration when you realise that the average working week for people other than doctors is 37.5 hours yet for doctors half time can be in excess of 40 hours . |
| 17 | I have a few niggles about design , finding the waist drawcord on the Solos awkward and annoying and the elasticated buckle on the Colorados inclined to slip and get in the way of a harness . |
| 18 | He even managed to stand and walk in a new way . |
| 19 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 20 | Every Saturday night the other farm workers from the surrounding area used to go to drink and dance in the market town two or three miles away . |
| 21 | Well , Yon Yonson took to drink and stayed in the pub until he 'd drunk up most of his grant . |
| 22 | According to a report in The Independent last month , the Department of the Environment and the Foreign Office are proposing that only participants in military parades and religious marches will be allowed to chant and sing in the embassyland of Kensington and Belgravia . |
| 23 | Teeth which are permanent fixtures can evolve complex shapes , fitting precisely with their partners in the opposite jaw , making it possible to chew and slice in a way not open to most reptiles . |
| 24 | The man behind him , holding the Skorpion with practised casualness , not the careful tension of one unused to handguns ; balanced , relaxed , self-confident , knowing he could bring the machine-pistol to aim and fire in a fraction of a second . |
| 25 | The wind rose and the long grass began to flutter and ripple in the dip between them . |
| 26 | The Rowlands had always wanted to farm and revelled in the return to a rural community in 1966 after a sojourn in suburban England , where , Gareth says incredulously , he had to pay to play rugby . |
| 27 | A moment later the men who watched it explode from the verandah felt their ragged clothes begin to flap and flutter in the blast . |
| 28 | Improving the morale of the area and finding out how best , in areas of marginal economics , to encourage young people to remain and work in the area after completing their education . |
| 29 | Hope flicked to alert and took in the scene : five other parties , all yielding the centre to the couple who occupied it with proprietorial ease ; several guides being consulted , some read from aloud , everywhere the men pointing , the indies dipping their heads to listen or lifting them to question , with seeming humility , the words of the scholars and their translators . |
| 30 | It was good to be back in the peace of the Outer Isles , to swim and laze in the still of a summer evening . |