Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia .
2 This all shows that stones are very active and can absorb and give out energies .
3 This is an important role which requires the authority of a senior staff member , for example a Deputy Head , who can make and follow up decisions regarding curriculum development and in-service training .
4 Whenever there is a chance , she and her partners will emerge and stir up trouble .
5 But I would try and give up sugar altogether , but I do n't know .
6 This time , I 'll try and make up minutes and get them out , cos it helps I think .
7 What you got ta do is , each card , if you they ar the person in front of you asks the co the question and if you get it right you get that card and each card has got a letter on it and you got ta try and make up sex maniac .
8 Do you try and write down hesitations ?
9 Insulating your loft , fitting double-glazing , making your doors draughtproof and switching off lights and fires when you do n't need them save energy — and money too .
10 It reminded him of another mad suggestion from a man in California , offering the contras $50m if they would go and take over Malta .
11 Verse 7 Then we shall come and eat up ducks etc .
12 Verse 6 Then ducks 'll come and eat up worms etc .
13 Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association .
14 When she was older , he had paid for her to go to school , proud of her ability to read and write and work out figures .
15 No goodwill speeches , no glowing perorations about ‘ the patience of our people under misfortune ’ alter the plain fact that if people have to live and bear and bring up children in bad houses on too little food , their resistance to disease is lowered and they die before they should .
16 Head teachers are responsible for ensuing that teachers do teach and carry out assessments as required … .
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