Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night forensic experts were testing the guns to try and link them with crimes in Britain , Europe and America . |
| 2 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 3 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 4 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 5 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 6 | They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor . |
| 7 | Which would then expel the market traders and I think the i well the ploy was to try and get them into some of the er the vacant lots in within the Ellesmere centre . |
| 8 | So will more than likely be off next week , but I do want to try and get something done with this and some of the other accounts , I want to try and get them out the way before I |
| 9 | Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge . |
| 10 | It 's not advisable to try and cut them out yourself as they tend to be close to the skin . |
| 11 | So what you 've got there is a mass of you 've got six twelve words on the first circle and then you 've got twenty four words on the outer circle are you gon na dump all that information on to the audience to try and persuade them of your objective ? |
| 12 | I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’ |
| 13 | I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’ |
| 14 | and all sorts of things to try and discourage them from this . |
| 15 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 16 | Ask the Lord to bless and encourage them at this time and that they would not suffer from ill health . |
| 17 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 18 | Decide which questions you are going to answer and put them in order of difficulty with the easiest coming first . |
| 19 | Randomizing algorithms are sometimes provided , but it is generally wise for the user to allocate and test them for each file on an individual basis . |
| 20 | She was too exhausted to resist and showed them into the living room . |
| 21 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 22 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |
| 23 | Then proceed to those that have still some way to go and take them at least a little further . |
| 24 | And er course summer holidays we always used to go and spend them with granny and granddad . |
| 25 | that 's lovely , one off each strip , one for you and one for me , have to go and claim them at tea time . |
| 26 | I think I ought to go and put them in the dryer a bit longer . |
| 27 | For example , many badger communities use one group of holes for several years , leaving others in the territory to fall into decay , only to uproot and re-open them on a whim . |
| 28 | He tried publicly to acknowledge and exorcise them in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold . |
| 29 | He had some home truths to impart and presented them without fear or favour . |
| 30 | A basic principle is to try out the things you think you are most likely to enjoy and to incorporate them into your routine on a long-term basis . |