Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education liaison officer Lindsey Walton said : ‘ We were approached and asked to participate in this prestigious scheme and are very pleased to be associated with the schools . ’ |
| 2 | Craigendarroch 's information pack — which can be found in your room — is a mine of information on the many activities and placed to see in this fascinatingly diverse area . |
| 3 | Oh and got to park in main parking lot . |
| 4 | While many are unable to tolerate a close , demanding , intimate relationship they nevertheless crave friendships and want to engage in normal social activities such as eating out and chatting over a drink in a club or pub . |
| 5 | I 'm doing a secretarial course and want to get in that way . |
| 6 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 7 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 8 | By this he means the degree to which an individual wants and chooses to engage in certain specified behaviour is low . |
| 9 | Living snakes and lizards are highly varied , and manage to live in some environments ( e.g. dry deserts ) where the mammals are pushed to survive . |
| 10 | the recognition that an incapacitated person should be allowed and encouraged to participate in any decision-making to the fullest possible extent . |
| 11 | The children should be given the opportunity to mix with handicapped people , and encouraged to participate in voluntary activities , helping in homes and at social clubs for the handicapped . |
| 12 | They met in 1968 and began to cohabit in 1969 , although they did not marry until 1978 . |
| 13 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech . |
| 14 | Héloise de Rochefort stood very still for a moment , then she covered her face with her hands and began to cry in great , gusty , choking sobs . |
| 15 | Arabs need to be fast and alert to survive in exposed desert lands , while Highlands have to be sensible and phlegmatic to cope with mountainous terrain . |
| 16 | Utd ( which I was totally amazed about when I read it in the newspaper ) he seems to have settled down and appears to put in more effort . |
| 17 | In Europe between the wars fascist movements destroyed democracy in several countries , while in Latin America , Africa and Asia military dictatorships and other forms of authoritarian rule have been common , and continue to exist in many places . |
| 18 | In other words , the symptoms were at their worst during the hot , dry summers of the early Eighties and started to improve in subsequent wet summers . |
| 19 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she burst out hoarsely and started to fight in deadly earnest , slapping and scratching at him , little cries of panic coming from the back of her throat as her mind flashed back into full operation and she realised with sick fear just how close she had come to the edge . |
| 20 | Then it must have changed its mind , and started to grow in two directions , a narrower tube into the ‘ mouthpiece ’ and a broader one into the ‘ horn ’ , and there is some evidence that the ‘ horn ’ end continued to get wider and longer . |
| 21 | Andrew Puddle , the Wales skipper from Colwyn Bay , won the toss and decided to field in dull conditions . |
| 22 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 23 | I would take as one of them the letters in Assyrian characters sent from Persia to Sparta which the Athenians intercepted and managed to translate in 425 B.C. : for surely by Assyria grammata Thucydides must mean an Aramaic text ( 4.50 ) . |
| 24 | Speak up , speak slowly ( it adds weight to your words and gives the judge a chance to take notes ) and try to speak in articulate sentences . |
| 25 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 26 | If a Maori left his tribe and went to live in another district , either through marriage or otherwise , and he and his descendants remained away for three generations , they would forfeit all rights to the land so abandoned ; their claims would become ahimataotao . |
| 27 | And it was just after Frank had left her and gone to live in that place in . |
| 28 | He swims in the 50m butterfly , for which he is ranked No 3 in Britain , and hopes to compete in other events . |
| 29 | He was slightly built and liked to joke in public about his prominent ears and simian features , though contemporaries were much more likely to be arrested by the large and melancholy brown eyes . |
| 30 | As you improve and start to sail in stronger winds you will want to sweep the daggerboard completely up into the board at high speeds to help with control . |