Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medium bombards and basilisks , made by John in his wisdom with trunnions , now showed the virtues of his new two-wheeled carriages , which made them easy to move and regroup whatever the weather . |
| 2 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 3 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 4 | All the more important that you should choose wisely and know what the cost of any anticipated repairs will be . |
| 5 | The rest of those in the room have to try and do what the leader does as fast as possible afterwards , but without making obvious who the leader is . |
| 6 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 7 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
| 8 | To vanish and give herself the chance to rebuild her life . |
| 9 | If the lord abbot agrees , I hope you will stay and give us the benefit of your judgement . |
| 10 | Show us what you want us to do and give us the strength to submit our will to yours . |
| 11 | And they used to come and give us the pattern , what the butler got to lay on the table ; the tea-service would be the same pattern as the tablecloth was . |
| 12 | Explain to him how you feel and chat to his parents , who may rally round and give you the support he refuses to give you . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I wish to leave , and I want you to come and show us the place where those two corpses were found . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In fact , ’ said Liz , ‘ I 'd better go and see what the butlers are up to . |
| 15 | The advice was was not to hang on and see what the May elections er looked like . |
| 16 | Mourning the death of his adopted daughter in the raid , Gaddafi was inviting the world to come and see what the Americans had done to him . |
| 17 | The alarm will trigger in a central control point and the people there will either ring a neighbour to ask them to go and see what the problem is , or immediately ring the emergency services . |
| 18 | No you 're alright , no I 'll look and see what the man 's doing . |
| 19 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 20 | ‘ Let's just wait and see what the critics have to say , ’ Josh returned drily , but he was grinning broadly , clearly delighted . |
| 21 | why do n't you wait and see what the numbers are like and then you can always ring up a few people and say we 've got a space if you 'd like to come |
| 22 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 23 | ‘ I shall have to wait and see what the situation is with Lazio before I know about England . |
| 24 | ‘ I guess we should go through and see what the picture is . |
| 25 | So she would stay and see what the future brought . |
| 26 | Rather than enter this fray it could be better to wait and see what the outcome of the vote is . |
| 27 | ‘ People are very welcome to come and see what the teachings are about without any obligation . ’ |
| 28 | Well you 'll have to wait and see what the inspector says on the greenbelt . |
| 29 | This definition should be understood as the choreographer 's ability to establish a style of movement through which the audience will feel and understand what the performers are communicating through a particular way of dancing . |
| 30 | For after the rain came hail , to batter and crush what the water had left undamaged , and after the hail , snow , sudden freezing squalls that piled white drifts in every cranny and across every open space . |