Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He even managed to stand and walk in a new way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you want to learn more about horses you either have to go and work in a training yard or enrol for a college-based course — right ? |
| 9 | She hated school and left at sixteen to go and train in a riding stables to be an instructor . |
| 10 | Three artists have come together to paint and teach in an idyllic setting in West Sussex . |
| 11 | There are so many things to see and do in a short stay . |
| 12 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 13 | At first the walls seemed to be stacked with dense , stocky , motionless objects , but as the nightmare progressed , they began to writhe and squirm in an eerie , soundless dance . |
| 14 | As the light flickered across its surface , the already uncomfortably organic-looking reliefs seemed to writhe and slither in an even more lifelike fashion . |
| 15 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 16 | Edward , who died in 1932 aged 64 , preached against the evils of drink in Darlington market place , and Thomas emigrated to Canada to continue the work , only to collapse and die in a pulpit at the end of a sermon . |
| 17 | After a buffet lunch with various head office guests , Mike Bloy and Morton Henderson led a discussion and syndicate session entitled Managing People Through Change which analysed the various factors both physical and emotional that the modern manager must be aware of in order to react and communicate in a positive and constructive way . |
| 18 | Conversely , where an uneven and granulated wash is desirable ( such as in a mixture of ultramarine and burnt umber , which tends to separate and granulate in a very attractive way and is a good alternative to the deadening effects of lamp black ) then water with a high mineral content should be used by stirring a teaspoonful of cement powder or plaster into about half a pint of water , allowing the solids to settle and using the relatively clear overlying liquid . |
| 19 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 20 | But like no other yet characterised it seems able to exist and function in a large number of structural permutations . |
| 21 | He believed that machinery and urban life had ruined modern life , and advocated what he termed the ‘ voluntary segregation of the fit ’ to live and breed in a utopian community of farmers and skilled craftsmen . |
| 22 | Here at last , people have an abundant society where all benefit and all are free to live and work in a flexible , creative way . |
| 23 | The Christian ideal was more the saint than the sage : men and women who made the world to come seem present now rather than those who knew how to live and survive in a stormy and dangerous society . |
| 24 | He ushered in a new era in the study of religion and of theology ; he brought a new conception of what the disciplined and ordered study of both could be ; he underlined in epoch-making fashion the importance of the subjective aspect of religious awareness , pointing to what lies deeper than intellectual formulations , yet is not reducible to inchoate and diffuse ‘ feelings ’ ; he attempted to grasp and express in an original and modern way the abiding significance of Jesus , and to uncover the living and personal meaning of what were in danger of being dismissed as merely the fossilised accretions of doctrine . |
| 25 | Dolphins have developed many adaptations to survive and succeed in a marine and , to a lesser extent , freshwater environment . |
| 26 | Kammerer must have been inadvertently imposing massive selection pressure on the eggs , weeding out all those eggs that were unlikely to survive and develop in a watery environment . |
| 27 | It is important to note that the decision to export and import in a free market economy is not made by the country as a collective unit . |
| 28 | Consequently , and inevitably , all junior officers were drafted there to do their stint in the overcrowded , overheated and noisy halls of the new airport which seemed to expand and change in a bewildering chaos of new cement and plaster board overnight . |
| 29 | There are a dozen states asking to join and participate in an all-European economic and political arrangement . |
| 30 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |